Senior Software Developer - Backend

Trilogy Innovations seeks a seasoned Senior Backend Software Developer to support a federal modernization program. This fully remote role focuses on migrating legacy functionality to cloud-native microservices within AWS GovCloud, with on-call duties and collaboration across a distributed engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Build, adapt, and maintain general software applications or specialized utilities.
• Migrate legacy mainframe functionality to cloud-native microservices operating in AWS GovCloud.
• Contribute to the operation and support of an enterprise-scale production system, identifying and resolving issues in collaboration with the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Assess user needs and design effective software solutions.
• Design and model databases within an application area, working solo or as part of a team.
• Apply principles and techniques from computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 8 years of work experience, or an Associate's Degree with at least 12 years of experience.
• Active Tier 3 Secret clearance.
• Experience working within an Agile framework, actively contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and CI/CD pipelines.
• 5+ years of experience with Java Object-Oriented Programming.
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containers, including automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native architectures within secure, regulated environments.
• Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with three or more of the following: Apache Kafka; Pub/Sub; Streaming; Event sources; Running GitOps (GitLab, Git, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.); Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for version control; on-call support.
• Experience with large-scale systems.

Technologies

• AWS GovCloud
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Java
• Apache Kafka
• Pub/Sub
• Streaming
• Event sources
• GitLab
• Git
• Bitbucket
• ArgoCD
• Tecton
• Jira
• Confluence
• IBM DB2
• Elasticsearch
• OpenTelemetry
• AWS

Compensation

• Salary range: USD 140,000 - 144,000 per year

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Performance bonus eligibility
• 401k with company match
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Professional development programs
• Employee referral bonus program

On-Call Expectations

• Acknowledge on-call contacts (phone, text, or email) within 15 minutes
• Remain within reasonable access to your secure work laptop while on call
• Log in and begin assessing or troubleshooting requests within 60 minutes of notification

Work Environment

Remote work setup with occasional travel as required.

High Level Objectives

• Migrate all current-system functionality from mainframes to a cloud-based AWS GovCloud environment
• Incorporate modern name search capabilities
• Expand image handling to accept larger files and additional formats, including PDFs
• Transition investigative search to Elasticsearch to support faster reporting for law enforcement
• Build new services following a microservices architecture and run within OpenShift containers
• Transition database functionality from IBM DB2 to the appropriate cloud data store
• Update NIEM schemas and IEPDs to enable updated functionality and accelerate retirement of the dot-delimited message format

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