Sr Fullstack Developer
Position Description
Full Stack Java Software Developer
This position is located at a client site five days a week in Pittsburgh, PA; Strongsville, OH; Dallas, TX; or Birmingham, AL.
Are you an experienced software developer who enjoys building robust, scalable applications and providing technical leadership? CGI is seeking a Full Stack Java Software Developer at the Lead level to help design, develop, modernize, and deliver complex enterprise applications for the client.
This is a hands on engineering role that combines architecture and implementation. You will make technical decisions, help engineering teams solve difficult problems, and lead technical execution within a team or significant application area. You will guide solutions from design through production while helping improve the quality, reliability, security, and maintainability of the systems you build.
Your future duties and responsibilities
. Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable, secure, and maintainable full stack applications.
. Serve as a hands on technical leader, contributing production quality code while guiding technical implementation.
. Design and build backend applications and services using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot.
. Develop modern web applications using technologies such as React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, depending on the application stack.
. Design and integrate RESTful APIs, services, and event driven or asynchronous components.
. Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
. Translate complex business and technical requirements into practical, maintainable software solutions.
. Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions involving application structure, APIs, integration patterns, data models, security, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
. Evaluate trade offs between competing approaches and clearly communicate technical recommendations to engineering and non engineering stakeholders.
. Perform code and design reviews and establish expectations for code quality, automated testing, observability, maintainability, and secure development.
. Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application, integration, database, infrastructure, and distributed system boundaries.
. Improve application performance, availability, resilience, monitoring, and operational supportability.
. Identify and reduce technical debt while balancing modernization efforts with business delivery priorities.
. Design and implement solutions using relational and/or NoSQL data stores and sound data access patterns.
. Apply CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, source control, and infrastructure or cloud native development practices to improve delivery quality and repeatability.
. Incorporate security throughout application design and development, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, dependency management, data protection, and secure coding practices.
. Mentor software engineers through design discussions, pairing, code reviews, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.
. Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, architecture, security, infrastructure, operations, QA, and other engineering teams.
. Lead technical discovery and proof of concept efforts for new technologies or architectural approaches.
. Help develop reusable frameworks, libraries, reference implementations, development standards, and engineering best practices.
. At the Expert level, provide technical direction across multiple applications or engineering teams and influence broader technology strategy and architectural standards.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
. Significant professional software development experience, with advanced expertise designing and building enterprise applications using Java.
. Strong experience with the Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
. Strong full stack development experience, including modern web development technologies such as React or Angular and JavaScript/TypeScript.
. Experience designing, developing, integrating, and supporting REST APIs and distributed services.
. Strong understanding of object oriented design, design patterns, data structures, application architecture, and software design principles.
. Experience with relational databases, SQL, data modeling, and persistence technologies such as JPA/Hibernate.
. Experience developing automated unit, integration, and/or end to end tests.
. Experience with Git based source control, build automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex application and production problems across multiple layers of a technology stack.
. Strong understanding of application security and secure software development practices.
. Experience performing technical design and code reviews.
. Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor other software engineers.
. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, alternatives, risks, and trade offs to technical and non technical audiences.
. Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum software development environment.
Preferred Qualifications
. Experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems.
. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization and orchestration technologies.
. Experience with messaging or event streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
. Experience with observability platforms and practices involving application logging, metrics, tracing, and production monitoring.
. Experience implementing resiliency patterns such as retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, caching, and graceful degradation.
. Experience with API management, OAuth/OIDC, identity integration, and service to service security.
. Experience modernizing legacy or monolithic applications.
. Experience establishing technical standards or reusable engineering patterns across multiple development teams.
. Experience working in environments with significant security, regulatory, compliance, availability, or business continuity requirements.
. Experience integrating AI or Generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
. Experience with mobile application development or integrating backend services with mobile applications.
Other Information
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $70,800.00–$156,700.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment and include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and well being programs
Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $91,800.00 $180,700.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
.Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team - one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.
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