Senior Java Engineer

Overview

S2Alliance seeking a motivated, career, and customer-oriented Java Developer to join our team in VA to begin an exciting and challenging career.
U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal government security clearance requirements.

Essential Job Duties:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 9+ years of technical experience
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining systems running on AWS (or equivalent cloud provider) - EC2, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, S3
• Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Oracle, SQL, JDBC
• Hibernate, JPA
• JSON, XML
• JMS
• Unix, Linux
• HTML, CSS
• Experience with object-oriented analysis and design techniques
• Thorough understanding of infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Scalable web applications and backend services
• High level of self-motivation, desire to deliver stellar solutions and willingness to work in a distributed team environment.
• Ability to lead and mentor junior level developers.

Desired Skills

• Experience architecting, designing, or developing a biometric search system.
• Developing 100% automating unit tests using SOAP-UI, Selenium, or equivalent tools
• Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools (Git, Gradle, Maven)
• Load Balancing and Enterprise Service Bus frameworks (preferably under Cloud environment)
• Agile Scrum and possibly experience with leading a Scrum team as a scrum master or equivalent.
• Biographic/document text matching using a framework such as Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, Sphinx, etc.
• DynamoDB, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra
• React, TypeScript, Angular/AngularJS
• Masters in computer science or related field

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement Micro Service Architecture JEE software applications.
• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software.
• Work with users in an Agile development approach to understand and document requirements in JIRA, then elicit feedback and refine solution through demonstrations.
• Present solutions at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government s system lifecycle methodology.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous PTO - 2 Weeks
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity for fast vertical growth
• Paid Holidays - Federal Calendar

Note:
Candidates will be required to complete a coding challenge to assess their proficiency in Java and Spring Framework as part of the hiring process. This will include practical tasks on Spring Boot, REST APIs, and database management.