Full Stack Developer

Hi,

Full Stack Developer

In-office in Ashburn, VA, 2-3 days/week

Clearance:

Ability to obtain the required government security clearance (CBP Final). Candidates with existing Active CBP BI, DoD Top Secret, or another DHS component clearance will be prioritized

Expert Java developer with strong Spring microservices, ORM/SQL database, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and AWS cloud deployment experience

Responsibilities:

• Lead and perform development and maintenance of end-user focused, object-oriented, data-driven analytic applications to support CBP threat analysis and targeting.
• Independently identify technical solutions for business problems, directly contribute to conceptual design, and routinely collaborate with Enterprise/Application architects, Database Architects, Data Scientists, and mission stakeholders.
• Develop new code, modify existing application code, conduct unit and system testing, and engage in rigorous documentation of developed and delivered application use cases, data flows, and functional operations.
• Demonstrate a strong practical understanding of industry standard Java Application Servers technologies such as WebLogic, WebSphere, TomcatEE and/or JBoss for application delivery and a strong understanding of application-relevant cargo and passenger data and databases used to support analytic application development, functionality, and targeting end user (officer) operation.
• Actively participate in formal and informal design reviews, solution sessions, and project milestone meetings as well as contribute to project document artifacts for presentation to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Integrate with, and materially contribute to, project portfolio teams as a matrixed resource to provide development and issue resolution expertise in collaboration with data scientists, intelligence analysts, developers, and other participants at the direction of a project manager.
• Mentor junior developers and actively contribute to the development of a community of practice focused on enhancing technical skills, sharing best practices, and promoting enhanced mission domain knowledge.

Required Education, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor s degree in related field
• 12 years of relevant work experience

• Hands-on experience with Java 8 and newer language features and an xpertise in Java and Object-Oriented Design and development principles (e.g. XML, JSON).
• Hands-on experience using Spring to develop Micro Services and/or REST API and with one or more ORM libraries such as Hibernate.
• Hands-on experience with one or more relational database systems (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, Postgres) and with SQL and developing complex SQLs involving multiple databases.
• Hands-on experience with web/application servers (e.g., Tomcat, WildFly, WebLogic) and with building and deploying containerized applications (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift).
• Experience developing solutions via Amazon Web Services (e.g, AWS EC2, RDS, S3).
• Hands-on experience with one or more build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle, Bamboo), with Software Source Code Management tools (e.g. BitBucket, Git), and leveraging distributed data/computing tools including Hadoop, Spark, Impala, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Developing applications with Spring Boot.
• Experience with NoSQL database systems such as Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.
• Experience executing continuous integration with Jenkins or Bamboo.
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux and shell scripting.
• Hands on experience with Agile Lifecycle Management and engineering tools including Atlassian Jira and Confluence as well as application IDE tools including Eclipse, Jupyter Notebook, and Apache Zeppelin.
• Agile Scrum participation and, ideally, Scrum Master experience.