Mandatory Qualifications:
1. Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
2. 7+ years of professional Java development experience with strong proficiency in Java 21 (records, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads). One to three years of experience designing and building microservices architectures — service decomposition, API gateway patterns, service discovery, and distributed configuration; deploying and operating microservices on AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda).
3. Seven years of experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Cloud); Spring Batch for large-scale batch processing; solid understanding of Hibernate/JPA for ORM and database interaction; experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases; building and consuming RESTful APIs with proper versioning and contract-first design; experience with inter-service communication patterns (REST, messaging queues, event-driven).
Desirable Qualifications:
1. More than 7 years of proven experience designing, building, and maintaining microservices architectures and RESTful APIs.
2. More than 7 years of experience with testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Mockito) and proficiency with build tools like Maven or Gradle.
3. More than 7 years of experience with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including an understanding of containerization with Docker and Kubernetes.
4. More than 7 years of experience with DevOps principles and experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
5. 2+ years of experience working in a federal or state government setting (Health and Human Services, especially in Integrated Eligibility System programs such as PA, TA, SNAP, HEAP, Fair Hearings, Child Support, etc. preferred).
6. More than 7 years of experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL) and SQL, as well as experience with NoSQL databases
