Java Software Engineer Contract Jobs in Manassas, VA

Job Summary:
ShiftCode Analytics, Inc. is seeking a Lead Java Software Engineer to support a leading health insurance customer in Reston, VA. The role involves leading a team in the design, development, and implementation of applications, while ensuring compliance with dev/sec/ops practices and mentoring junior engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of software engineers in the design, development, and implementation of multiple applications. Performs and leads the detailed technical design, coding, code review, and testing of new applications and enhancements of existing applications. Serves as a subject matter expert for specified systems and their subsequent applications. Develop and/or analyze interface design documentation. Comply with hardware and software systems standards and procedures. Deliver large systems for tens of thousands of users. Ensures compliance with the dev/sec/ops practices and policies. Understanding of architectural practices and design.
• Identifies gaps in requirements and solves problems for the supporting staff. Identifies sequencing of services and technologies that are integrated in later phases of the project. Leads the evaluation of risk and opportunity impacts to existing or proposed projects/programs and implements risk mitigation actions. Develops ways to improve performance and increase system availability. Provides recommendations to infuse new technology. Compile, assess, and report data results from software testing and analysis.
• Supports the Project Manager as the technical team lead on the project. Estimates the technical costs of projects for clients and project managers. Confers with clients to identify requirements and determine desired outcomes to formulate the design of the system or offer alternatives. Demonstrated experience with front-end and back-end programming and integration frameworks and tools. Assist in the estimation of the development of application features.
• Leads software design and development teams. Identifies, analyzes, defines, and coordinates user, customer, and stakeholder needs and translates them into technical requirements. Manages technical resources (hardware, software, licenses, and services). Plans and leads transformation initiatives to new software architectures. Extend open-source libraries and systems as necessary to meet the needs of the team. Play a crucial role in product scoping and roadmap/architecture discussions. Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices. Ensure code quality, deployment standards, and practices. Mentoring junior developers.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology or Computer Science
• 8 years in Software design and development, software testing and evaluation, software requirements management
• Java
• microservices
• Spring framework
• Spring Boot
• Spring Integration
• MQ
• AWS - EKS
• Lambda
• S3
• event bridges
• step functions
• SQS
• MongoDB
Preferred:
• Advanced knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Advanced knowledge of database technologies (e.g., cloud, SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of software engineers' best practices, agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced knowledge of test-first practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) for unit tests and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) for automated acceptance tests.
• Strong experience with Deployment/Continuous Integration/ Continuous Testing/ Continuous Delivery processes and tools, and have expertise in CI/CD tools and frameworks.
• Experience with deploying a global application and configuration management.
• Ability to communicate technical requirements to all levels of expertise.
• Proficient in establishing and maintaining good working relationships.
• Knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient with integrating complex and/or existing systems.
• Expert knowledge of programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, C, Python, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Company:
ShiftCode Analytics Inc is a Tampa, FL based firm formed with one sole purpose of delivering best and quick services to its clients nationwide. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Tampa, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.