Sr Fullstack Developer

CGI•Pittsburgh, PA

3d•$70,800 - $180,700•Onsite

About The Position

CGI is seeking a Lead-level Full Stack Java Software Developer to design, develop, modernize, and deliver complex enterprise applications for a client. This is a hands-on engineering and technical leadership role, combining architecture and implementation. The developer will make technical decisions, guide engineering teams through difficult problems, and lead execution within a team or significant application area. The role guides solutions from design through production while improving system quality, reliability, security, and maintainability. The position is located at a client site five days a week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Strongsville, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; or Birmingham, Alabama. The role works across the software development lifecycle, collaborating with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, and quality assurance partners. CGI describes a culture based on ownership, teamwork, respect, and belonging, with opportunities to develop skills and contribute to company strategy. The U.S. compensation range is stated inconsistently in the posting: one estimate is $70,800–$156,700, and another is $91,800–$180,700. CGI states that compensation decisions depend on factors including skills, experience, training, and certifications. Eligible professionals receive benefits beginning on their first day of employment.

Requirements

Significant professional software development experience and advanced expertise designing and building enterprise applications using Java.
Strong experience with the Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
Strong full-stack development experience, including modern web technologies such as React or Angular and JavaScript or TypeScript.
Experience designing, developing, integrating, and supporting REST APIs and distributed services.
Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, application architecture, and software design principles.
Experience with relational databases, SQL, data modeling, and persistence technologies such as JPA/Hibernate.
Experience developing automated unit, integration, and/or end-to-end tests.
Experience with Git-based source control, build automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex application and production problems across multiple technology-stack layers.
Strong understanding of application security and secure software development practices.
Experience performing technical design and code reviews.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor software engineers.
Ability to communicate technical concepts, alternatives, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum software development environment.
Ability to work at a client site five days a week in one of the listed locations.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems.
Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization and orchestration technologies.
Experience with messaging or event-streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
Experience with observability practices and platforms involving logging, metrics, tracing, and production monitoring.
Experience implementing resiliency patterns such as retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, caching, and graceful degradation.
Experience with API management, OAuth/OIDC, identity integration, and service-to-service security.
Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic applications.
Experience establishing technical standards or reusable engineering patterns across multiple development teams.
Experience in environments with significant security, regulatory, compliance, availability, or business-continuity requirements.
Experience integrating AI or Generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
Experience with mobile application development or integrating backend services with mobile applications.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable, secure, maintainable full-stack applications.
Contribute production-quality code while guiding technical implementation as a hands-on technical leader.
Design and build backend applications and services using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
Develop web applications using technologies such as React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, depending on the application stack.
Design and integrate RESTful APIs, services, and event-driven or asynchronous components.
Provide technical leadership across requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
Translate business and technical requirements into practical, maintainable software solutions.
Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions concerning application structure, APIs, integration patterns, data models, security, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
Evaluate competing technical approaches and communicate recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Conduct code and design reviews and set expectations for code quality, automated testing, observability, maintainability, and secure development.
Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application, integration, database, infrastructure, and distributed-system boundaries.
Improve application performance, availability, resilience, monitoring, and operational supportability.
Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing modernization with business delivery priorities.
Design and implement solutions using relational and/or NoSQL data stores and sound data access patterns.
Apply CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, source control, and infrastructure or cloud-native development practices.
Incorporate security into application design and development, including authentication, authorization, secrets and dependency management, data protection, and secure coding.
Mentor software engineers through design discussions, pairing, code reviews, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, QA, and other engineering teams.
Lead technical discovery and proof-of-concept efforts for technologies or architectural approaches.
Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, reference implementations, development standards, and engineering practices.
At the Expert level, provide technical direction across multiple applications or engineering teams and influence broader technology strategy and architectural standards.