[Hiring] Senior Java Software Engineer @Ad Hoc

Role Description

The Senior Java Software Engineer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements. A Senior Software Engineer - Back End impacts the long-term goals of the program while contributing to the implementation of the program’s development strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices.

• Demonstrate technical expertise, accountability, and ownership of contributions to the application codebase.
• Maintain a strong understanding of adjacent technical areas, systems, and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integrations and dependencies.
• Design, develop, test, maintain, and improve high-quality software solutions across front-end and/or back-end systems.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues within owned systems, using incidents and lessons learned to identify opportunities for system and process improvements.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers in developing their technical and problem-solving skills.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts, issues, risks, and developments to team members, clients, and stakeholders.
• Participate in technical interviews and help evaluate engineering candidates.
• Use strong technical judgment and influencing skills to propose, evaluate, and recommend approaches to technical and process challenges.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers within the team.
• Lead small projects, technical initiatives, or temporary team structures as needed.
• Develop and present design documents, system diagrams, technical recommendations, and other engineering artifacts to clients, stakeholders, partners, and fellow engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of engineering experience; relevant experience may substitute for education.
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment.
• Proficiency in Java for server-side development.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, including versioned OpenAPI specifications.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and non-relational/search platforms (Elasticsearch).
• Familiarity with containerized deployments using Docker and AWS services (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience working in agile environments with CI/CD pipelines and version control via Git/GitLab.
• Practice writing automated tests (JUnit, Pytest, or equivalent) and working within quality gate frameworks like SonarQube.
• Strong written communication skills for developer-facing documentation.

Requirements

• Prior experience with federal agency digital services or government contracting environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using AWS SNS/SQS and Lambda/Step Functions.
• Experience with SAFe or scaled Agile delivery frameworks.
• Exposure to consumer-driven contract testing (Pact) or API contract governance across microservices.
• Experience with third-party integrations such as Pay.gov, login.gov, or identity/authentication platforms.
• Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience.

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401K with employer match.
• Paid parental leave after one year of service.
• Employee Assistance Program.