Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Java / AWS EKS)

job summary:
Fully onsite in McLean, VA

location: McLean, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 95 per hour
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

• The Work: 85-90% brand new feature development and enhancement of an existing Securities application. Full SDLC involvement.
• Production Support: Very little production support. Only once a month on rotation for deployments/after-hours work.
• DevOps Boundaries: Manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Jira) from a developer perspective. They are not expected to build infrastructure or use Terraform.

qualifications:
Required Experience & Education

- 8-10+ years of professional software development experience.

Candidate should have/be:

- Strong analytical skills.

- Be able to reason with and communicate ideas they bring to the table.

- Be open minded for others' ideas. A motivated team player.

- Have experience using at least one Coding Agent enabled IDE (e.g. VSCode, Amazon Kiro)

- Have experience working with at least AI Coding Agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex)

Strong proficiency in below programming tools, languages & Frameworks

- Proficiency working with Docker containers.

- Understanding of the use of containers in the development process.

- Understanding of application lifecycle management.

- Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline (e.g. JIRA, Jenkins) to deploy applications.

- Java 8 (or above), I/O, Multithreading, Collections, Generics, Lambda

- REST API Web Services, GraphQL API query language.

- Spring Core, MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Sprint Data (JPA), Dependency

Injection, DAO (Data Access Object), JTA, JDBC

- HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, Angular 9 or above.

- Apache Tomcat, Jetty Server.

- Maven, Gradle, Junit/ Mockito, Cucumber.

- Design Patterns like MVC, Singleton, Session, Facade, Factory, DAO (Data Access Object),

DTO

- JSON technologies

- Streaming technology - Kafka

- AWS EKS

Be able to perform following Responsibilities:

- End-to-end software development - including analysis, planning, architecture, design,

development, automated testing, deployment, and maintenance using industry best practices and

security standards.

- Performance optimization - analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement

solutions to enhance application efficiency and scalability.

- Collaborative solution delivery - partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements,

leverage proof of concepts for technical decisions, and implement solutions with cross-functional

teams.

- Production support and maintenance - support applications across environments, resolve

critical

issues, and fulfill ad-hoc requests to ensure seamless business operations

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.