Senior Backend Engineer - Microservices

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Computer Programming, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Senior Backend Engineer - Microservices

In this senior engineering role, you will design, build, and support scalable microservices powering critical enterprise systems. You will collaborate across product, architecture, and cloud engineering teams, ensuring highquality delivery within a modern, cloudnative platform. This role offers the opportunity to apply deep technical expertise while shaping best practices and mentoring others.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

Architect and develop microservices using Java and Spring Boot
Engineer solutions leveraging Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
Create efficient SQL queries and data pipelines for highavailability systems
Implement CI/CD automation using Jenkins and InfrastructureasCode with Terraform
Develop robust unit tests with JUnit and drive continuous code quality improvements
Lead peer code reviews and support engineering standards adoption
Deliver production support with strong incident resolution and rootcause analysis
Support agile execution and ensure accurate work tracking

What Youll Need to Succeed Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.

Alternative Path:If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Required Experience

13+ years of experience delivering microservices architecture
Expertlevel Java and Spring Boot proficiency
Handson experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
Strong SQL and database performance tuning skills
Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Terraform IaC
Proven ability to produce comprehensive JUnit coverage and ensure code quality
Conducting peer code reviews and providing actionable feedback
Experience with agile project tools (VersionOne or similar)
Production support experience including incident management and troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications

Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Microservices design patterns and advanced distributedsystems concepts
Experience supporting hightraffic, largescale platforms
Opensource contributions

Security Clearance Level:

• This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility.  This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement.The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows:U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Remote

The likely salary range for this position is $131,750 - $178,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employees date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.