Freelance Application Software Engineer Jobs in Idaho

As a Software Engineer III, you will design and develop complex software solutions, lead technical initiatives, leverage AI/ML capabilities to shorten development time, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance products and platforms.
A Software Engineer III is responsible for the analysis, design, coding, component, and assembly testing of system and component software tools and applications. Software Engineers typically are involved in maintenance (including production support),enhancement, and development work. Software engineers have a range of skills and knowledge of current technologies, such as:
• Designing and developing high-volume, high-performance applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability and reliability.
• Capable of contributing alone or as part of a team in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Able to write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Able to deliver designs that follow the backlog and user specifications.
• Capable of delivering releases of tested software components on time and of high quality.
• Experienced in working in a continuous improvement style of development by investigating technical alternatives and new technologies.
The Idaho Benefit Eligibility System (IBES) and its supporting applications were implemented more than a decade ago. Since then, the Division of Self Reliance has continued to customize and integrate new solutions to adapt to changes in programs and workload. Recent federal program requirement regarding community engagement necessitates further enhancements to IBES. As part of addressing community engagement requirements, Self-Reliance would also like to :
• Reduce or eliminate staff dependency on manual review of business process documentation by creating automated and guided workflows that support staff in processing benefit applications, re-evaluations, and changes.
• Utilize AI technologies to increase efficiency in code delivery and releases.
• Explore the creation of an agentic-AI code development solution capable of operating 24x7, shifting the burden of code creation to AI in favor of the Software Engineer III ensuring code is fit-for-purpose, aligned to leading practices, and is supportable long-term.
Our development and production environment includes clustered JBoss application servers, clustered Apache web servers, F5 load balancers, BRE, Adobe Lifecycle, Subversion source control, MyEclipse IDE, Jenkins, Oracle 11g, Apache Service Mix ESB, Wily Introscope, etc.
Weare looking for a strong technical contributor who can quickly come up to speed with our existing system functionality and application infrastructure, from both hardware and software perspectives. The candidate to fill this position must be able to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Partners with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, simplicity, or feasibility of implementing software solutions in the available system and solution parameters.
• Evaluate, utilize, and lead the use of AI/ML capabilities to accelerate existing and new product modification /creation.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and data teams to define requirements and ensure alignment on AI feature behavior.
• Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business processes and programming solutions as required based on requirements and backlogs.
• Utilizes in-depth modeling, design, and coding skills to deliver quality solutions.
• Design applications to functional and technical programming standards.
• Gather and interpret user requirements into design specifications.
• Develop system specifications and interfaces.
• Determine time estimates and schedule for work based on given parameters.
• Code new features/functionality, as well as software enhancements and/or required fixes to production problems using existing and industry-standard functional and technical programming standards.
• Participate in or conduct structured code reviews/walkthroughs.
• Design and support testing of code prior to deployment.
• Provide On-Call support as needed.
• May require overtime to meet deadlines.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill Required /Desired Amount of required experience in yrs Candidate Experience J2EE application development, including front-end, back-end, and middle-tier components Required 5 Years Experience with multiple design patterns Required 3 Years Experience with third-party middleware tools incorporated into application design Required 3 Years Webservices creation, consumption, and implementation Required 3 Years Extensive knowledge of web and application servers Required 5 Years Coding experience with Spring modules Required 2 Years web application development with Struts modules Required 2 Years Web Services experience, top-down and bottom-up implementation with JAXWS Required 2 Years Oracle SQL experience Required 2 Years Application Server experience, JBOSS, Deployment Management, etc. Desired 2 Years scripting experience (with Shell, Groovy, etc.) Desired 2 Years Solid working knowledge of Linux O/S and Shell scripting Desired 2 Years Operational understanding of browser-based application infrastructure running in a clustered hardware environment Desired 2 Years Working knowledge of a modern welfare eligibility case management system, preferably with hands-on experience with Idaho's Medicaid Eligibility auto Desired 2 Years Questions
No. Question Candidate Answer Question1 Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you agree to this requirement? Question2 What is your candidate's email address? Question3 Have you completed and submitted the Right to Represent form, making sure to do so exactly as instructed? The form is located at https://www.cai.io/media/documents/msp/id/idaho_e-rtr_template.doc. Question5 Respond to this question with a link to your candidate's LinkedIn Profile Question6 If selected to interview, All candidates submitted MUST be able to attend either: (1) an IN-PERSON interview at the client location OR (2) a webcam/virtual interview with their camera on . Please confirm you have discussed this with your candidate and they are able to make an in-person interview OR attend the interview virtually with their camera on if selected. Question7 Please prepare your candidate that they may receive a screening call from someone at CAI at any point between the time of submittal through close of business, Tuesday, 7/14/26, to discuss their qualifications for this position. Please MAKE SURE THEY ARE PREPARED FOR THIS CALL and are PREPARED TO GIVE US YOUR COMPANY's NAME as the vendor that submitted them for this position. Please confirm you have discussed this with them and they will be prepared for a potential screening call from CAI.