Backend Developer

Job description

Job Description

Backend Developer

Position Description
CGI is hiring a Backend Developer to support a client. This is an exciting full-time opportunity to join our team in North Bethesda, MD, and grow your career with the 5th largest IT services provider in the world. In exchange for your committed efforts toward success, we’re offering a competitive salary, a complete benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401k, and paid vacation.

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Will work within a fast-paced Agile DevOps team contributing and collaborating within the scrum team on a daily basis.
• Work closely with UI developer and database engineer to lead the backend services design and decomposition, lead the API based microservices development efforts
• Leverage event and policy driven microservices architecture and API gateway technologies to develop various business capabilities keeping security as top priority
• Leverage serverless and/or container-based approach while building and delivering services
• Show expertise, proficiency and desire to use industry leading application development best practices (e.g. TDD/BDD, CI/CD, leveraging modern frameworks like Loopback, etc.)
• Support the Lead Architect and perform technical hands-on leadership role in the analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance of software solutions.
• Provide consultation and support services for the full life cycle of software product development. These activities will include communication with the user community during requirements analysis, prototyping, system analysis, development, fielding, and maintenance of systems.
• Evaluate new software products and technologies and provide recommendations to enhance existing systems or build new ones.
• Provide software development support for the prototyping of analytical tools, data management and user interfaces to databases, and computational utilities.
• Research and explore new solutions, technologies and best practices and quickly prototype those to determine the validity of those for our environment

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience and expertise on various tools, integrations frameworks and design patterns
• Expertise and 3+ years of experience on Node.js and Angular based applications
• Expertise and 5+ years of experience on JAVA and related frameworks
• 2+ years of experience in developing software applications on cloud platforms (aws/azure)
• Experienced in developing Restful, SOA-based, microservices applications
• Experience with schema-based forms
• Experience with HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, REST and JSON
• Proven experience with responsive web design
• 3+ years of SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL
• Experience on Automated Test-Driven Development (ATDD) using Mocha, Karma/Jasmine and functional test tools such as Selenium, Protractor, Gherkin, Cucumber
• Exposure to application development using 18F Digital Library
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development teams
• Experience working within a Continuous Integration environment
• Experience working with AWS tools and environments
• Preferred experience with Jira or a similar scrum management tool
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Exhibit confidence and knowledge in solving complex problems
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