Backend Developer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge that we can’t turn into opportunity. And our work depends on a Backend Software Developer joining our team to support Government activities at Chantilly, VA.

GDIT is seeking an experienced Backend Developer to join our team of building scalable, maintainable and high-performance backend services using a microservices architecture. As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing backend services using modern backend frameworks and technologies with a focus on building modular, loosely coupled components that integrate with our frontend applications You will work closely with our development team to build and maintain scalable and maintainable backend architecture.

Required experience with:

• Demonstrated hand on experience with backend frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate
• Strong understanding of data modeling and database design principles with experience designing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)
• Experience with Oracle Relational Database Services (RDS)
• Experience creating RESTful APIs, including designing API endpoints, handling requests and responses, and implementing API security measures
• Experience with Java and Java-based technologies, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable backend services
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing using JUnit and other testing frameworks and code coverage using tools like JaCoCo
• Experience with Tomcat and other servlet containers
• Experience with Linux based systems and shell scripting
• Experience with automated build, test, and deployment technologies such as Gradle, Maven and Jenkins
• Experience with API documentation tools like Swagger
• Experience with cloud based technologies such as AWS
• Experience with utilizing CI/CD Pipelines
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

• Security clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Location: Chantilly, VA (On Customer Site)

• US Citizenship Required

Desired experience with:

• Experience working with or implementing serverless architecture such as AWS Lambda and other serverless technologies
• Experience with designing and implementing microservices architecture , with a focus on scalability and maintainability
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker
• Experience with orchestration technologies like Kubernetes

Nice to Have:

• Experience with other backend frameworks such as Node.js or Python
• Experiences with AWS Services such as EKS ad Step Functions

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required