Title - Java Backend Developer

Location - Rockville MD

Duration - 12+ months

Job Profile Summary

Working independently, the Senior Software Engineer owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers.

Job Description

Seasoned individual contributor with deep expertise in Java to design, develop, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade applications on AWS through clean, modular, and performant code; proficiency in Python preferred.

Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives
• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals
• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management
• Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities
• Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities

Essential Technical Skills:

Backend Development: Strong experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures. Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns.

Data Storage Technologies: Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases (Example: PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL systems (Example: MongoDB, Cassandra), and graph databases (Example: Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements.

System Design & Architecture: System Design & Architecture: Strong system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale

DevOps & Infrastructure: Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team.