Java Backend Developer

Job Description

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.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.