Senior Backend Java Developer

AHU Technologies Inc

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

AHU Technologies Inc in Washington, DC seeks a Senior JAVA Developer to modernize the DC DMV Destiny project. You will design, develop, and test using Java, J2EE, and Spring technologies, delivering scalable backend services and APIs in an Agile environment.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure secure, high-performing software, and contribute to documentation and deployment procedures from development through production.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
Strong knowledge of Java, J2EE, and Spring technologies.
Experience designing RESTful APIs and middleware services.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy JAVA applications across development to production.
Refactor and debug code to improve performance and maintainability.
Collaborate with internal teams and stakeholders to align software architecture.
Provide technical guidance and documentation throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Java Development

Spring Framework

J2EE

REST APIs

Agile Methodologies

Software Design

Code Refactoring

Debugging

Documentation

Communication

Unit Testing

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Tools

Maven

Git

Tomcat

RedHat OpenShift

JIRA

Job description

Job Description

Short Description

Complete Description

client will be modernizing the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Enterprise Application Destiny project to leverage new digital technologies such as cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence and mobile that are required to create modern experience for customers and partners of DC DMV. Modernizing the DMV Enterprise Application Destiny helps DCDMV improve their services to citizens, enhance government operations while strengthening the overall data security. To address these challenges, the OCTO-DMV team is looking to hire highly skilled individuals to rapidly connect DMV Enterprise Destiny Application with modern technology while minimizing disruption to the existing systems.

Role Description

The role will require you to design, develop and test using JAVA technologies which will facilitate application development and implementation from development to QA to production. You will work to gain an understanding of the current system infrastructure, security needs, network considerations, and methodologies.

In this role, you will primarily focus on JAVA programming and supporting the ecosystem for the organization.

Responsibilities

The Senior JAVA Developer position requires in-depth knowledge of JAVA and J2EE background using Spring Technologies framework, design, and architectural styles /API’s (REST/RPC) and Agile methodologies for the development of application programs. The Senior Developer will be writing clean, scalable code using JAVA programming languages, refactor and debug code, improve existing software, test, and deploy applications and systems. The resource will be required to develop documentation throughout the lifecycle of the development process and provide technical support to the team.

Ensure that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.
Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
Develop, Test and Deploy applications and systems
Revise, update, refactor and debug code
Improve existing JAVA applications and systems
Proactively monitors and reports performance utilization of assigned technologies.
Troubleshoot software and/or hardware issues/failures.
Manage problems or escalated tickets and tasks and out-of-cycle requests from systems/software owners.
Determine the best course of action for meeting business needs and provide consultative expertise to customers on how to best use systems.
Proactively monitors and identifies broader, more complex issues across multiple, integrated, connecting technologies and communicate as appropriate.
Provides technical knowledge and support to District agencies, personnel, and additional stakeholders
Performs other related duties as assigned
May coordinate activities of application developers.
Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications
Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts
May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Minimum Education / Certification Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Contract Job Description Responsibilities

1. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
2. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/products. This is a professional position which may require subject matter expertise consistent with demanding and rare technological skills.
3. May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team.
4. Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design.
5. Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements.
6. Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders.
7. May coordinate activities of application developers.
8. Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
9. Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems.
10. Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies.
11. Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies.
12. Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
13. Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.
14. Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
15. May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).
16. Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.

Minimum Education / Certification Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience

Skills Matrix

Experience with core JAVA development with strong back-end developme
JAVA – Annotations, Generics, Reflection, Inheritance, OO Design, NIO, Bean Validation
Spring Boot Application Development Experience
Spring – Java Config, Dependency Injection, Autowiring Concepts
Spring Integration Development Experience
Spring Web Services Development Experience
Synchronous and Asynchronous programming experience – Callbacks, Future, Timeout and Error Handling
Experience with MAVEN Project Build experience
Experience with GIT version control repository
Experience with Tomcat/Jetty/undertow Application Servers
Experience with LINUX working environment
Experience with JIRA Issue tracker
16+ yrs. conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty
16+ yrs. preparing complex technical documentation
Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
RedHat Openshift Container-based application development and deployment experience
Working with mainframe CICS containers and channels using JCA connectors
Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practice
Must have enough experience to qualify for a Master Level position.