Senior Software Developer - Backend

Trilogy Innovations•Bridgeport, WV

1d•$140,000 - $144,000•Remote

About The Position

Trilogy Innovations is seeking experienced Senior Software Developers to join our team in support of a high-impact federal modernization initiative. This is a fully remote opportunity to work on large-scale, mission-critical IT systems that serve real users at a national level. You’ll collaborate with a talented, distributed engineering team and play a key role in shaping the future of complex government technology environments. If you enjoy solving challenging technical problems, contributing to long-term transformation efforts, and working in a fast-growing organization, this role offers both stability and meaningful impact. On-Call Expectations To support critical system needs, this role participates in a rotating on-call schedule for one week out of every four. During your on-call week, you’ll be part of a responsive support team that helps ensure system reliability and continuity. * Acknowledge on-call contacts (phone, text, or email) within 15 minutes * Remain within reasonable access to your secure work laptop while on call * Log in and begin assessing or troubleshooting requests within 60 minutes of notification The on-call rotation is structured to provide balance while ensuring our federal partners receive timely, dependable support when it matters most.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years of work experience or associate's degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience.
Active Tier 3 Secret clearance.
Experience working within an Agile framework, actively contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and Cl/CD Pipeline.
5+ years' experience with Java Object-Oriented Programming.
5+ years' experience with Kubernetes and containers; automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native architecture within secure, regulated environments.
Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
5+ years of hands-on experience with three or more of the following: Apache Kafka Pub/Sub (Publish, subscribe) Streaming Event sources Running GitOps (GitLab, Git, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.) within version control tools.
Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for version control management.
Ability for on-call support.
These positions can expect to be on the on-call list one (1) week out of every four (4) weeks.
Proficiency with Java Object-Oriented Programming
Experience with Cloud-native architecture
Event-driven architecture; streaming (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes; automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
Experience running GitOps (GitLab, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.)
Experience with large scale systems

Nice To Haves

Experience with Apache Kafka Pub/Sub (Publish, subscribe) Streaming experience Event sourcing
Experience with OpenTelemetry
Experience with AWS
Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs.
Migrate and modernize all current-system functionality from legacy mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices operating within AWS GovCloud.
Participate in the operation and support of an enterprise-scale production system, including identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving system issues in collaboration with the ART.
Analyze user needs and develop software solutions.
Analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team.
Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
Migrate and modernize all current-system functionality from legacy mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices operating within AWS GovCloud.
Provide technical leadership for the development team, including collaboration with the System Architects to implement architectural decisions that ensure alignment with ART standards, patterns, and security requirements.
Actively mentor developers, including support for junior and mid-level developers in solutioning and design decisions, promotion of best practices in code development, testing, and documentation.
Demonstrate a positive, collaborative attitude and a commitment to team success
Takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable software that supports a mission-critical system
Shows ownership and accountability for assigned work and shared team outcomes
Engages constructively in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions
Maintains a strong work ethic, professionalism, and respect for teammates, stakeholders, and mission priorities
Adapts to change and approaches challenges with a solution-oriented mindset
Migrate all current-system functionality from the mainframes and operate within a cloud-based environment (AWS GovCloud)
Incorporate modern name search capabilities.
Expand image handling to accept larger files and support additional file formats, such as PDF.
Transition investigative search to Elasticsearch, providing a faster response and report creation time for law enforcement.
Build new services to follow microservices architecture and run within containers using the OpenShift platform.
Transition database functionality from IBM DB2 to the appropriate cloud data store.
Update NIEM schemas and IEPDs to allow agencies to use updated functionality and speed up the dot-delimited message format retirement.