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SAIC

Java Backend Developer

SAIC, Ashburn, Virginia, United States, 22011


Description

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented, and hands on Java Backend Developer with cloud experience to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career.

Job Responsibilities

Working closely with the tech lead and senior developers, the Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a java back-end application involving extensive Messaging and Transaction processing

Must be hands on and be able to design and develop Java code as dictated by project requirements as needed and work with/mentor junior team members

The candidate will be expected to learn and adhere to the continuous integration, automated unit testing and other AGILE practices established within the team using the tools that are currently used by the team

The candidate is expected to diagnose and fix issues in existing application components as part of maintenance

Qualifications

Required:

BS and 5 years of related experience

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship

5-7 years of strong Java J2EE/JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems

2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS lambda

Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB etc.

Docker and Kubernetes experience

Spring Boot/AWS cloud experience

Web /Micro Services

SQL DBs (preferably Oracle)

Messaging and Streaming Systems (SQS, Kinesis and Kafka)

XML/JSON

Unix/Linux

Extensive skills in JDBC/JPA/Hibernate and strong SQL skills is required for this position

Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)

Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential

Gitlab/JIRA/Jenkins for CI/CD

Desired:

First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)

Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems

Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements

Agile development experience a plus

IBM MQ , JMS, EJB, MDB and other JEE technologies

JEE Server experience (Weblogic\Websphere\JBOSS\etc.)

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2408243

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability