ACS WEB Senior Software Developer SME/Software Engineer

About the role

The role combines hands-on full-stack engineering with technical leadership and subject matter expertise, supporting complex federal software development and modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Senior Software Development SME, providing technical guidance while remaining actively involved in software development and Operations & Maintenance (O&M) activities.
• Lead and support day-to-day developer activities in collaboration with the Project Manager, Technical Lead, Cybersecurity SME, and QA team.
• Develop, enhance, optimize, and maintain full-stack web applications using Java, J2EE/JEE, JavaScript frameworks, Spring Boot, JSF, PrimeFaces, and related technologies.
• Support the transition to and development of Single Page Applications (SPA), contributing to modern and scalable web architectures.
• Analyze requirements, estimate level of effort, develop technical solutions, create screen mockups, and implement approved software changes.
• Conduct unit testing, peer reviews, code check-in/check-out activities, defect identification and resolution, and troubleshooting of development and production environments.
• Work with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, enterprise containers, incident management, and related development tools.
• Investigate application, server, networking, and environment configuration issues and assist with resolving technical problems.
• Develop and maintain system design specifications, software user guides, process documentation, diagrams, and other technical materials.
• Facilitate developer technical meetings, prioritize work, communicate issues and proposed solutions, and keep project and task leadership informed of progress.
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, application performance, maintainability, and overall engineering efficiency.
• Quickly integrate into existing technical teams and become highly knowledgeable about custom-built applications and their open-source components.

Requirements

• Active Public Trust / Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) clearance is required.
• 15+ years of software/web development, engineering, or optimization experience, with strong expertise in Object-Oriented Programming and full-stack J2EE development.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Java 17/21, JEE, Spring Boot, JavaScript, AngularJS, React, Preact, JSF, PrimeFaces, jQuery, JavaBeans, or equivalent technologies.
• Demonstrated experience transitioning to or working with Single Page Applications (SPA).
• Experience with enterprise development environments and technologies such as Eclipse, Visual Studio, JBoss/Red Hat Linux, zLinux, Tomcat, HTML5, UML, .NET, Visual Basic, IBM Liberty, Rocket Verastream Bridge Integrator (VBI), and iText or comparable tools.
• Strong hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, incident tracking/management, and enterprise container platforms or equivalent technologies.
• Proven ability to perform requirements analysis, level-of-effort estimation, unit testing, peer reviews, defect resolution, troubleshooting, networking and environment configuration.
• Experience producing technical documentation, including system design specifications, user guides, process documentation, and technical diagrams.
• Ability to quickly understand complex, custom-built software applications and work effectively with common open-source components.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline focused on software development/engineering; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
• Preferred experience with GitHub repositories, JIRA, Eclipse 2022+, ServiceNow, Selenium test development, enterprise software development lifecycle frameworks, security regulations, system development standards, and Section 508 compliance.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals, development environments, change-control processes, and web interfaces to mainframes is advantageous.
• Software development, security, networking, or systems administration certifications are a plus.