Java Developer (Mid Level)

ABOUT THE BUSINESS:

Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Pole Star Defense is looking for Java Developer(s), passionate about building robust modern applications based on Java eco-system of frameworks and tools, event-driven microservice architecture, and best industry practices. You will be working in a growing team on an exciting green-field project that owns end-to-end delivery of the entire solution. The perfect candidate will work within an Agile environment and actively participate in story planning & daily standups. You will play a key role in collaborative project teams and assist with designing and developing mission-critical, enterprise-scale business systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, code, and test software modifications for assigned applications to address changes or fixes as necessary for problem resolution
• Review, analyze, and modify existing microservices, including coding, testing, debugging, and installing within a large-scale ecosystem
• Independently prepare estimates of effort to develop and execute approved application changes in primary applications, prioritize work assignments, and facilitate peer review of work products
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
• Define application objectives and functionality and ensure application designs conform with business goals
• Maintain shared responsibility for documentation updates to configuration records and the related configuration management tool to track application changes
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement of all solutions, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

• 5+ years of direct design and programming experience with Java/Spring/REST/Microservices
• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
• Experience with AWS cloud
• Experience with messaging and event streaming systems and frameworks (such as JMS, Kafka, etc.)
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its benefits, drawbacks, and workarounds
• Practical day to day working knowledge of code versioning tools and build frameworks, such as Git and Maven
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as FluxCD

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or relevant work experience
• AWS Certified Developer - Associate or related certifications
• CompTIA Security+ preferred

DESIRED SKILLS (Not Required):

• Experience working with U.S. Public Sector customers - DHS or DOD
• DoD Security Clearance preferred