Senior Software Developer

CGI•Fairfax, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

CGI is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, senior SW developer to join a high performing Agile team in designing and building modern, services based web applications for a large government agency. Our team is using a modern development stack and various open source technologies. You will have the opportunity to help modernize the cloud based system. Grow your leadership and technical skills with in demand technologies in a fast paced environment as part of an exciting, positive team that moves quickly and delivers quality software alongside a passionate customer. This position is located at our CGI Federal office in Fairfax, VA, however a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline
Minimum 7+ years hands on experience in Java development (Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data/JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs)
Experience building and maintaining frontend applications, including TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Angular (v14+)
Proven experience designing and developing Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS)
Experience with PostgreSQL (or similar RDBMS), including schema design, query optimization, and migration tooling (Flyway)
Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event streaming platforms
Experience with AI paired programming tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q)
Experience in CI/CD methodologies and tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, SonarQube)
Experience in API development and application security best practices (OAuth 2.0, TLS, PKI, JWT)
Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and paired programming
Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (GitHub, Bitbucket, pull requests, code reviews)
Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a passion for exploring emerging technologies
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a culture of continuous improvement
Proactive, detail oriented, and self motivated professional who can hit the ground running
Quick learner with the ability to multi task, work under pressure, manage tight deadlines, and adapt to changing requirements
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Ability to build trusted relationships and partner across a complex organization
Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status quo, and seek out answers

Nice To Haves

AWS serverless and analytics services – Step Functions, Lambda, SES, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch, Athena, SageMaker, QuickSight, Databricks, Tableau
User authentication and authorization platforms – Okta, SecureAuth, AWS Cognito
UI/UX frameworks beyond Angular – Bootstrap, Angular Material
Log management, alerting, and monitoring – Datadog, Google Analytics
Load testing tools – JMeter, Gatling
Project management and collaboration tools – JIRA, Confluence
Selenium or Cypress for end to end test automation

Responsibilities

As a senior full stack developer, you will collaborate with the team in an Agile setting to research best practices, design and develop application architecture, implement solutions, mentor fellow team members, and test and deploy solutions.
Contribute to the ongoing architecture and development of a modern cloud native applications built with technologies such as Angular and Java/Spring Boot.
Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, and product managers to understand problem statements, functional and non functional requirements.
Collaborate with the team in an Agile setting to research best practices, design and develop microservice architectures, implement solutions, mentor fellow team members, and test and deploy solutions to AWS cloud environments.
Write clean, well organized code following best practices while sharing knowledge with the team to grow collective skills in building robust full applications.
Participate in all phases of an Agile software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, estimation, coding, code reviews, and testing.
Author and review frontend and backend code leveraging AI assisted paired programming techniques.
Deploy and manage applications on AWS using containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines.
Develop and consume RESTful APIs, gaining experience in API design patterns and microservice communication.
Build a solid understanding of data structures, problem solving, algorithm design, and data formats (JSON, YAML).
Participate in daily standups, code collaboration sessions, and sprint ceremonies to promote continuous progress.
Engage in client, industry, and end user discussions to provide technical viewpoint on the application.
Lead and participate in technical design sessions to create sustainable, high performing features and provide accurate estimates and development timelines.
Drive continuous improvement of existing development tools, technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
Author automated testing scripts (unit, integration, and end to end) for both frontend and backend.
Augment and improve system architecture, including microservices design and cloud native patterns on AWS.
Apply strong understanding of database design (PostgreSQL) and optimize application access to backend data, including query tuning and schema migrations (e.g., Flyway).