Software Developer III

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Software Developer III in Englewood, CO. Overview: We are seeking an experienced Software Developer III with a strong foundation in Java and backend/service development. The ideal candidate is more than someone who can simply execute assigned coding tasks. This person should be comfortable taking an ambiguous technical problem, breaking it into manageable pieces, designing an appropriate solution, and driving the work through delivery. The developer will work collaboratively with other engineers and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and production troubleshooting. The environment calls for someone who combines strong hands-on software engineering skills with the maturity to make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, performance, security, and long-term maintainability. Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, configure, test, debug and document applications and system components
• Participate in technical and API design, including RESTful services
• Translate functional requirements and analysis into sound technical solutions
• Participate actively in architecture, design and code reviews
• Develop and maintain operational and system-level documentation
• Build and work with database schemas, queries and data models
• Develop against messaging/event-driven systems such as Kafka
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and take ownership of overall code quality
• Troubleshoot application and production issues using logs, metrics and traces
• Work within modern CI/CD and source-control workflows
• Provide substantive feedback during peer code reviews and help improve overall engineering quality
• Collaborate effectively with developers and other stakeholders

• Deep proficiency in Java
• Strong software development fundamentals
• Ability and willingness to learn additional languages and technologies

• RESTful web services
• API development
• Ability to design a component or service
• System/application design experience

• MySQL
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• Schema/data modeling
• Query performance

• Strong testing discipline
• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills
• Production debugging
• Experience working with logs, metrics and traces

* CI/CD

• Version-control workflows
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Basic cloud/infrastructure familiarity

• Security awareness
• Application performance awareness
• Strong code-review practices

• Camunda BPM experience - identified this as a nice-to-have
• Experience working across multiple technology stacks
• Experience operating in environments where priorities and technologies evolve