Senior Java Tech Lead - Spring, Kubernetes & Mentorship

Integral Federal, Inc.; Fort Meade, Northern (MD, KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead / Senior Java Developer to provide hands-on leadership for JPES/JCRM sustainment and modernization efforts. The role focuses on Java/Spring engineering, architecture-to-implementation translation, and mentoring senior developers.

The candidate will engage in code reviews, production issue resolution, and collaboration across DevSecOps, database, test, and integration teams to reduce technical debt and ensure maintainable, scalable software delivery.

Qualifications

• BS in a technical discipline; 4 years of experience in lieu of degree acceptable.
• 8+ years of professional software-development experience.
• Strong Java and Spring/Spring Boot experience.
• Kubernetes/containerized applications experience.
• PostgreSQL experience.
• REST API and web-service development experience.
• Relational database/SQL experience.
• Git/source-control experience.
• Automated unit-testing experience.
• Technical leadership and mentoring experience.
• U.S. citizenship and required Secret eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead Java/Spring application engineering.
• Develop and review complex application enhancements and defect corrections.
• Translate architectural designs into software implementation.
• Conduct code reviews and enforce development standards.
• Mentor Java developers.
• Support Tier 3 production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Coordinate with integration, database, test, cyber, and DevSecOps personnel.
• Support technical debt reduction and application maintainability.
• Participate in design and release-readiness reviews.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

SQL

Git

Unit testing

Leadership

Education

BS in technical discipline

Job description

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead / Senior Java Developer to provide hands-on leadership for JPES/JCRM sustainment and modernization efforts. The role focuses on Java/Spring engineering, architecture-to-implementation translation, and mentoring senior developers.

The candidate will engage in code reviews, production issue resolution, and collaboration across DevSecOps, database, test, and integration teams to reduce technical debt and ensure maintainable, scalable software delivery.