Jr Developer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

Our client, a Real Estate and Financial Services company, is looking for a Developer-Java/J2EE Senior for their McLean, VA location.

• Project Leadership:
• Partner with Single Family Architecture to define technical solutions to complex business issues that align with target state architecture and conforms with corporate best practices.
• Provide technical guidance to the project team. Lead design and code reviews.
• Engage with business to discuss issues and document or explain technical solutions in a simplified meaningful way.
• Agile evangelist, work as a part of a high performing agile team and help others to comply with the department application standards and general industry-based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
• Contribute and participate in design, testing and code reviews.
• Software Development:
• Understand Business Requirements, actively participate in requirements analysis, design and approach based on industry best practices, system requirements and Architecture, prototype and proof of concept as necessary, develop, unit test, create and help maintain an automation suite, and deploy application enhancements.
• Build Micro Services based solutions using Java/JEE, Spring frameworks, Docker, Open Shift, EKS/AWS platform.
• Comply with the department application standards and general industry-based Java/JEE based application development principles, theories, concepts, documentation and techniques.
• Build test automation suite to fully test the applications and features.
• Position requires strong analytical skills, software engineering process skills, and the understanding of XML and creation of XML test data.
• Position requires experience with GUI technologies such as Angular, strong back-end expertise with Spring Framework, MongoDB/Atlas (preferred) and AWS services and technologies.
• Application Support:
• Support client core applications in providing Level 3 support, which includes providing fixes to production defects. Quickly evaluate defects, investigate cause and come up with solutions to remediate. Production support is a matrix-based organizational support, and the individual needs to clearly communicate progress and issues to matrix manager.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills may be acquired.
• Minimum of 5-7+ years of experience in software development; 2 or more years of experience working in Agile, Lean/Kanban, or Scaled Agile organization.
• Demonstrated ability to use Lean/Agile delivery practices to improve teams, quality, and reliability
• Experience applying Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and Static Code analysis to improve quality and reliability of delivery
• 5+ years of experience in Design and Development of Applications and Web Services using the Java EE, Angular & XML.
• Ability to independently perform all developer duties from Analysis to deployment to postproduction defect fixing.
• 5 years of experience in designing in enterprise grade applications using Object Oriented Analysis and Design.
• Produce high quality design artifacts that cover all aspects of sound architecture. Ability to review and comment on Jr Developers design.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in Spring Framework (Spring Boot), CI/CD frameworks, Apigee, Autosys/Shell scripting.
• Java presentation frameworks experience – STRUTS or Angular or similar frameworks
• Integration experience using Web Services /REST and EJB preferably on Kubernetes
• Strong backend experience to develop Data Layer using frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Experience in creating backend frameworks is huge plus.
• Experience in using relational and no-SQL databases like DB2 & MONGO
• Strong experience in using Angular, XML, JAXB, and XML persistence using XQuery.
• Extensive use of Eclipse (commonly used plug-ins and debug techniques)
• 1+ year of hands-on test automation experience
• Preferred Skills:
• Preferred experience but not necessary – DevOps and MicroServices are plus.
• Hands-on experience with Build and Deployment tools and languages – MAVEN, Gradle, ANT, Shell script, Jenkins, EKS
• Mortgage and/or financial services industry experience a plus.
• Prior client experience a plus

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities