Software Engineer

Required Skills and Experience:

• The Remote Software Engineers will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining two (2) of our primary applications being rewritten.
• The focus areas include event-driven design, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, React, Elastic search, and either RabbitMQ or Kafka. 

The resource(s) should meet the following minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field

The resource(s) should have the following qualifications: 

• Ten (10) years of relevant experience in software development. 

Offeror proposed resource(s) shall be responsible for the following: 

Design and Development:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement software solutions. 
• Apply event-driven design principles to build scalable and resilient applications.
• Develop microservices using Spring Boot.
• Create responsive user interfaces using React. 

Message Brokers:

• Work with RabbitMQ for message queuing and event streaming.
• If experience is in Kafka, understand the architectural differences between RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Implement message producers and consumers. 

Deployment and Infrastructure:

• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes clusters, utilizing CI/CD pipeline. 
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems.
• Optimize application performance and scalability. 

Quality Assurance: 

• Write unit tests with a goal of 85% coverage and participate in peer code reviews. 
• Conduct system testing and debugging activities. 

Documentation and Communication:

• Document technical specifications, architecture, and design decisions.
• Design shall include sequence diagram for major use cases.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and deliverables. 

Reporting

• A weekly report communicating project progress and status.
• Weekly time reporting on JIS provided forms, and any additional reports as assigned by the supervising manager. 

OFFEROR RESOURCE(S) SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, & CAPABILITIES 

• Offeror shall propose resource(s) possessing the following preferred skills, experience, and capabilities: 

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in event-driven design principles.
• Strong knowledge of Spring Boot and micro services architecture.
• Strong knowledge of the use of design patterns.
• Spring JPA experience is required.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Front-end experience utilizing React and/or Angular.
• Experience with either RabbitMQ or Kafka for message queuing. 
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services.
• Elastic search experience is a plus. 

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, end users and vendor development staff, as well as all levels of management and judicial personnel as necessary. 

Problem-Solving Abilities:

• Ability to analyze complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.