Software Engineer

Position: Software Engineer


The client seeks a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain two of Judicial Information System's (JIS's) primary applications being rewritten. The focus areas include event-driven design, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, React, Elastic search, and either RabbitMQ or Kafka.


Contract duration: Five years


Interview mode: In person at 187 Harry S. Truman Parkway, Annapolis Maryland 21401


Location: 189 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401 (two days remote, three days onsite)


Java (8+ yrs), Spring Boot, Microservices, React, Kubernetes, Event-Driven Architecture, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ/Kafka, PrimeFaces/JSF, CI/CD.


Duties/Responsibilities


Design and Development

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design, and implement enterprise software solutions.
• Apply event-driven architecture principles to develop scalable, resilient, and loosely coupled applications.
• Develop microservices using Spring Boot and associated Spring frameworks.
• Build response and maintainable user interfaces using React.
• Provide strong technical expertise in PrimeFaces 6.0 and above, including component usage, customization, and integration within Java Server Faces (JSF) applications.

Message Broker Integration

• Implement message queuing and event streaming using RabbitMQ.
• When experience is based on Kafka, demonstrate understanding of architectural and operational differences between Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Develop message producers, consumers, routing logic, and related integration components.

Deployment and Infrastructure

• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes clusters using automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot production systems to ensure reliability and uptime.
• Perform performance tuning and scalability optimization across application and infrastructure layers.

Quality Assurance

• Write unit tests with a target of 85% or greater code coverage.
• Participate in peer code reviews to enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct system testing, debugging, and validation activities.

Documentation and Communication

• Prepare technical specifications, architecture documentation, and design decision records.
• Produce sequence diagrams for major use cases as part of design deliverables.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to refine requirements and ensure alignment on deliverables.

Reporting Requirements (in a JIS prescribed format)

• Submit weekly activity reports summarizing progress on assigned programs and projects.
• Provide weekly project status reports in the JIS-prescribed format.
• Complete weekly reporting using JIS-provided forms, along with any additional reports requested by the supervising manager.

Minimum Qualifications

• Eight (8) years of core Java development
• Four (4) years of software development using Spring Boot and associated Spring frameworks
• Four (4) years of building interfaces utilizing React
• Four (4) years with the implementation of message queuing and event streaming using RabbitMQ and Kafka
• Experience with PrimeFaces 6.0 and above
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with microservices architecture

Education: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline