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Senior Java/JEE Developer

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Ashburn, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2026
Overview

BigBear.ai is seeking a Java/JEE Developer (Senior) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. The Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, systems engineering, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life-cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a browser-based application implemented using Java and backend web services. The candidate will be responsible for developing and testing Java code as dictated by project requirement.

What You Will Do

  • Design and implement Micro Service Architecture JEE software applications
  • Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Gitlab, and Atlassian Suites for ticketing and documentation, development, and testing the software
  • Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government's system lifecycle methodology
  • Participate on daily scrums and code reviews

What You Need To Have

  • Bachelor's Degree and 8 to 10 years of experience
  • Strong experience with Java & Java Frameworks (design and software development experience including designing, programming, and documenting large-scale software systems)
  • Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS
  • Experience with Cloud Migration
  • Spring Boot
  • Experience developing front-end using Angular and React
  • Java Frameworks such as Spring, Grails, and Play
  • Hibernate
  • JMS
  • XML, JSON
  • SQL, JDBC
  • Unix, Linux
  • 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
  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • 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

What We'd Like You To Have

  • Experience with architecting, designing and/or developing a biometric search system
  • Developing 100% automating unit tests using SOAP-UI, Selenium, or equivalent tools
  • Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools (Git and 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 and/or MongoDB
  • Python
  • JQuery, NodeJS

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai's predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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