Java Developer

Overview:

By Light is seeking a highly skilled Senior Full Stack Developer to support our Department of Veterans Affairs customer. As a Full Stack Developer, you will put your knowledge of Agile Software Development, DevSecOps practices, Product-based management and User Centered Design to develop software for By Light and our government and commercial projects.

• Provide leadership and work with Software Developers, Operations Engineers, DBA’s, Information Security and Quality Assurance personnel to rapidly develop secure, high-quality software in an Agile environment
• Mentor junior softare developers on user-centered design patterns, development best practices and DevSecOps trade-offs.
• Help build a community of practice that focuses on increasing product delivery frequency with short feedback loops with a focus on continual process improvement.
• Responsible for development of single page web applications supporting healthcare services
• Web application will be built using products like J2EE, Spring Framework, Hibernate, RabbitMQ, jQuery, Java, and Oracle
• Analysis and Design
  • Assist in generating designs which comply with requirements specifications
  • Assist in determining effort and time that will be required to resolve tasks
• Coding
  • Execute basic and advanced control constructs
  • Utilize the most efficient method or algorithm for solving a given problem
  • Apply logic to fundamental design issues
  • Develop software using prescribed coding conventions
• Documentation
  • Internal – Document code internal to a program for data/control constructs and modules/routines
  • Process – Generate comprehensible documentation for reference by other developers, engineers, etc. that complies with company standards
  • External – Produce customer documentation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Testing
  • Performs unit testing as necessary including Junit and Mockito testing
  • Accomplish integration and/or validation testing

• BA or BS degree
• At least 10 years of programming experience – Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, RabbitMQ other modern languages
• Knowledge of development frameworks and third-party libraries
• Well versed in all the latest back-end (Java, Maven) and database (Oracle, SQL, etc.) technologies
• Experience developing and testing APIs
• Able to pick up scope and designs and move quickly to support front end development (JSF, XHTML)
• Content Management tool development experience
• Kubernetes, Rancher, and Docker experience
• Development against Security Standards
• Self-starter that can troubleshoot their own local and system issues (and finish them)
• Understands emerging web and cloud development models
• Experience writing tests against large, complicated semi-modular enterprise systems with deep integrations and dependencies
• Ability to write SQL queries to check and load data is a plus
• Experience with Jenkins and GitHub
• Experience in a DevOps or DevSecOps environment and working to develop a mature build pipeline
• Quick learner and champion of best practice
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with performing object-oriented development in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment
• Experience with the following AWS products, DynamoDB, Lambda, Data Pipeline, EC2, CodeCommit, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, API Gateway, CloudFront, ELB, IAM, Cognito, Key Management Service, and S3
• Experience with Linux and Windows infrastructure
• Ability to integrate with various customer applications using Web services, work in an Agile environment, and incorporate DevOps best practices
• Experience with DevOps tools, including GitHub and confluence
• Experience with cyber security tools such as CodeQL, including Nessus, WebInspect, and AppDetective

• Experience supporting Veterans Administration technologies is a plus
• Currently has VA GFE and PIV is a huge plus, but can be waived for an awesome candidate
• Liferay DXP experience a plus
• Experience with architecture a plus
• Experience developing on modern technology stacks:
• MERN consists of different open-source components: MongoDB, Express, React, and Node
• MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js)
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.)