CGI Group, Inc. is seeking a senior full stack developer to join an Agile team building modern, services-based web applications for a large government agency. The work is heavily front-end focused with Angular, while still requiring meaningful backend development, microservices, and AWS deployment through CI/CD.
This hybrid role is based in Fairfax, VA and supports delivery across the full software lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through development, testing, and deployment.
What you’ll do
- Collaborate with the Agile team to research best practices, help shape application architecture, and develop and test solutions.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud-native applications using Angular and Java/Spring Boot.
- Partner with users, stakeholders, business analysts, and product managers to clarify problem statements and both functional and non functional requirements.
- Help design and implement microservice architectures, mentor fellow team members, and test and deploy to AWS environments.
- Write clean, well organized code using best practices and share knowledge to grow collective engineering capability.
- Participate across the Agile software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, estimation, coding, code reviews, and testing.
- Author and review frontend and backend code using AI assisted paired programming techniques.
- Deploy and manage applications on AWS using containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop and consume RESTful APIs, applying API design patterns and microservice communication concepts.
- Work with common data formats such as JSON and YAML, applying data structures, problem solving, and algorithm design fundamentals.
- Take part in daily standups, code collaboration sessions, and sprint ceremonies to maintain momentum.
- Engage in client, industry, and end user discussions to provide technical viewpoint.
- Lead and participate in technical design sessions to create sustainable, high performing features and provide accurate estimates and development timelines.
- Drive continuous improvement of development tools, technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Author automated testing scripts, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for frontend and backend.
- Augment system architecture with microservices design and cloud-native patterns on AWS.
- Apply database design expertise with PostgreSQL, including query tuning and schema migrations (for example, Flyway).
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline.
- 7+ years of hands on Java development experience, including Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data/JPA/Hibernate, and REST APIs.
- Experience building and maintaining frontend applications with TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and Angular (v14+).
- Proven experience designing and developing Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS).
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and migration tooling such as Flyway.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
- Experience with AI paired programming tooling (for example, GitHub Copilot or Amazon Q).
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SonarQube.
- Experience with API development and application security best practices, including OAuth 2.0, TLS, PKI, and JWT.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and paired programming.
- Experience with Git and collaborative workflows using GitHub, Bitbucket, pull requests, and code reviews.
- Technical leadership skills with interest in emerging technologies.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Proactive, detail oriented, and self motivated with the ability to hit the ground running.
- Strong communication skills, including written and verbal.
- Ability to build trusted relationships and partner across a complex organization.
- Willingness to ask questions, challenge the status quo, and seek out answers.
Technologies
- Angular, Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot
- REST APIs, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- AWS: ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS
- PostgreSQL, Flyway
- Apache Kafka
- GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q
- Jenkins, GitHub Actions, SonarQube
- OAuth 2.0, TLS, PKI, JWT
- Test Driven Development (TDD), Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- JSON, YAML
Compensation and benefits
Salary range: USD 89,600 - 194,000 per year. CGI offers competitive compensation and a benefits package for eligible professionals that includes comprehensive insurance options, 401(k) matching contributions and a share purchase plan, paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time, paid parental leave, learning opportunities and tuition assistance, and wellness and wellbeing programs.
Non essential skills (desired)
- AWS serverless and analytics services including Step Functions, Lambda, SES, Glue, Redshift, OpenSearch, Athena, SageMaker, QuickSight, Databricks, and Tableau.
- User authentication and authorization platforms such as Okta, SecureAuth, and AWS Cognito.
- UI/UX frameworks beyond Angular such as Bootstrap and Angular Material.
- Log management, alerting, and monitoring tools such as Datadog and Google Analytics.
- Load testing tools including JMeter and Gatling.
- Project management and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.
- End to end test automation tools such as Selenium or Cypress.
