Senior Back End Developer

Overview

BigBear.ai is seeking a Backend Developer (Senior) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. What you will do

Working closely with the tech lead and senior developers, the Mid-Level Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, systems engineering, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life-cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a java backend application involving extensive messaging and transaction processing

Design and implement Micro Service Architecture for Cloud based software applications

Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Jira, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software

Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government’s system lifecycle methodology What you need to have

Bachelor's Degree and 8 to 10 years of experience

9+ years of strong Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems

Ability to diagnose problems and support production systems

Experience working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS S3, DynanoDB, lambda etc

Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot

Experience with container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes

SQL DBs (preferably Oracle) and strong SQL/JDBC skills is required for this position

Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Document DB, Cassandra etc.

Messaging and Streaming Systems (Kafka, SQS ans Kinesis)

XML/JSON

Unix/Linux

Experince with JPA/Hibernate

Experience with building RESTful webservices and experience with query language based APIs like GraphQL

Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab and Jira for CI/CD

Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)

Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential

What we'd like you to have

First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)

Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems

Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements

Agile development experience a plus

IBM MQ, JMS, EJB, MDB and other JEE technologies

JEE Server experience (WebLogic\WebSphere\JBOSS\etc.)

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.