DescriptionReady to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nationβs safety, security, and prosperity.
!!! Long-Term Government Contract for Leading Edge Technologies !!!
As a Senior Full Stack Java Developer, you will offer your agile methodology experience as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team will be key to the overall success.
Your Role
- Lead the design, development and implementation of custom software and database application capabilities for modernized systems with limited oversight.
- Act as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.
- Provide improvements to the product(s) being supported.
- Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.
- Support release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines.
- Analyze complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components.
- Providing mentoring to members of the team.
Requirements - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to: 3 year check for felony convictions; 1 year check for illegal drug use; 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud.
- College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of degree
- At least ten (10) years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation in a Windows Environment
- Experience with Front End Development using Angular 2.0 (release 10 or higher), TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS; Node.js, NPM development; React Framework
- Strong experience with core Java (at least 8) Development; and any of the following: JPA, Hibernate (or other ORM). XML, JSON and SAML parsing; maven builds, and shell scripting; Application Configurations YAML, JSON, XML; Java Junit based unit testing
- Microservices architecture and development: Experience with Java Spring, SpringBoot, REST services, Kafka based development
- Experience with GraphQL
- Database Development: Experience using SQL PostgreSQL databases; JPA and experience with data base design
- Cloud Development: Experience with AWS services S3, RDS/Arora
- Some Experience with Mobile development preferred (iOS or Android OS) and Frameworks
- Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Communicating OODD and SOA principles and best practices
- Working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness
- Acting independently to expose and resolve problems
- Experience with source code control systems and concurrent development workflows (Git preferred)
- Ability to apply estimation techniques to software development efforts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team
Nice to Haveβs:
- AWS application development using services such as MKS, SNS, SQS, SES, SWF, Lambda, S3
- jHipster application scaffolding tool
- Event messaging and streaming using Kafka
- API Management using Apache Gloo Edge
- Modern CI/CD pipeline tool such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
- Technical Certifications or recent training in Java, Spring, Angular such as OCAJP; OCPJP
- Direct experience providing production support for applications utilizing PostgreSQL databases; experience with DB Admin tools such as PGAdmin
- Additionally, familiarity with any of the following is highly desirable: ETL tools, message queuing, application security, automated testing, UML, Jira
Ignite IT offers a comprehensive salary and benefits package to include Medical, Dental, and Vision; Short Term/Long Term/Life Insurance; 401K with matching and fully Vested 100%; PTO; Holiday; Training; and much moreβ¦
Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristic. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Applicants selected must be able to possess and maintain a government clearance as required for access to classified information.
US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED'
Benefits - 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance