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Req ID: RQ178278
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other Required: Other
Job Family: Software Development
Skills:
Microservices Architecture,RESTful APIs,Software Development,Spring Boot
Experience:
9 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Software Developers are an integral part of the team here at GDIT that supports the US Dept. of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid. You will be the development lead for a team building a new microservices-based solution to assist millions of students pursue the dream of higher education. This is an exciting opportunity creating a new cloud-based application while being a part of a DevSecOps integration. Your ability to develop in JAVA and create REST API’s are just the skills we need to deliver this solution to our customer. Communication is important within our organization; we use the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to empower our development team.
Your day-to-day impact:
Creating maintainable, adaptable, scalable, defect-free micro services based code using software development best practices and coding standards (i.e., software reuse, refactoring, continuous integration, test automation, secure development, and test driven development)
Working in a dev lead on a scrum team to develop, integrate, and deploy high quality reusable, testable, and efficient code including Microservices with Java, Spring Boot, and REST API’s
Developing microservices that include RESTful services using Spring Framework (IoC, MVC, Transactions, Security, and Batch)
Writing Unit Test frameworks (JUnit, Mocking frameworks), code coverage, and code review and integrating work with GitLab
Working within a SAFe environment that includes consistent leadership support, continued learning education, refining user stories, providing internal and customer demonstrations of developed code
Contributing within a SAFe environment including the Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Backlog grooming, Sprint/System Demos, PI Planning, and Inspect & Adapt events
Required Skills/Experience:
Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree and 5+ years of experience or equivalent years of experience
Experience with JAVA and developing/maintaining backend APIs.
Knowledge of REST API, JSON
Experience using API test cases in SOAP UI, PostMan, or ReadyAPI
Experience with common web development frameworks (Angular, Docker, React, Spring, Node.js, jQuery, Microservice Design, etc.)
Strong leadership skills required. Experience leading a scrum team preferred.
Excellent interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation
Desired Skills/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline
10+ of related experience in software development
Federal Student Aid systems experience strongly preferred
Experience with Atlassian suite of tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) or other issue/change tracking software
Experience with GitLab DevOps/CI/CD platform
Experience with an IDE such as eclipse.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
The likely salary range for this position is $106,371 - $177,632. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.
GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.