Developer Lead - Java

Remote Job Opportunity

iWorks Corporation is seeking a technical, self-motivated Software Developer Lead to join our team to support an essential modernization program for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid. As a member of our Agile development team, you will support several complex and high-volume customer systems. The ideal candidate would have experience developing in Java and building Representation State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API) solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of multiple scrum teams to develop, integrate, and deploy high quality reusable, testable, and efficient code including Microservices with Java, Spring Boot, and REST API's
• Lead/support the solution and product team to provide technical direction and documentation to scrum teams developing a RESTful services/microservice application.
• Creating design documentation and technical information that facilitates the grooming of stories for developers and testers to work from.
• Writing Unit Test frameworks (JUnit, Mocking frameworks), code coverage, and code review and integrating work with GitLab
• Working within a SAFe environment that includes consistent leadership support, continued learning education, refining user stories, providing internal and customer demonstrations of developed code
• Contributing within a SAFe environment including the Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Backlog grooming, Sprint/System Demos, PI Planning, and Inspect & Adapt events

Required Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of related experience in software development with 3+ years in a lead development role
• Experience with JAVA and developing/maintaining backend APIs.
• Knowledge of REST API, JSON.
• Experience using API test cases in SOAP UI, PostMan, or ReadyAPI.
• Experience with common web development frameworks (Angular, Docker, React, Spring, Node.js, jQuery, Microservice Design, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Experience with GitLab DevOps/CI/CD platform
• Experience with an IDE such as eclipse.