Lead Software Developer

Founded in 1998, Goldschmitt and Associates LLC (G&A) has grown from a one-man consulting firm to over 200 employees in 9 states and across 12 Federal Agencies. Specializing in Custom Computer Programming and Systems Design, Management Consulting and Business Support Services, Asset Management and Data Analytics, and Custom Training Development and Delivery, G&A is the #1 federal contractor in the VA/DC-Metro area, #2 provider of Information Technology services in America, and one of the top 50 fastest growing businesses according to the INC500. G&A was also named to the INC VET100 Top Fastest Growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses and awarded the 2022 SECAF Award of Excellence. G&A could only have achieved this growth and success due to the outstanding support of what we like to call our "family" of talented personnel. To show our appreciation, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with competitive benefits including flexible schedules and telework whenever the customer allows.

Summary:

Goldschmitt and Associates 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.

This position will be remote.

Job Duties and 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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. Citizenship with an existing Public Trust clearance, or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation
  

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Goldschmitt and Associates is an equal-opportunity employer. Goldschmitt and Associates does not discriminate in employment on account of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, or unfavorable discharge from military service.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job. It is intended to describe the general nature and work responsibilities of the position. This job description and the duties of this position are subject to change, modification, and addition as deemed necessary by the Company.