Senior Software Engineer

LOCATION: Annapolis, MD | SHIFT: Mon-Fri - Hybrid

The Maryland Judiciary Information Systems is seeking Senior Software Engineers. The Engineers will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining two of our primary applications being rewritten. The focus areas include event-driven design, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, React, Elastic search, and either RabbitMQ or Karka.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and Development

• Develop microservices using Spring Boot.

• Create responsive user interfaces using React.

• Apply event-driven design principles to build scalable and resilient applications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement software solutions.

Message Brokers

• Implement message producers and consumers.

• Work with RabbitMQ for message queuing and event streaming.

• If experience is in Kafka, understand the architectural differences between RabbitMQ and Kafka.

Deployment and Infrastructure

• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems.

• Optimize application performance and scalability.

• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes clusters, utilizing CI/CD pipeline.

Quality Assurance

Conduct system testing and debugging activities.

Write unit tests with a goal of 85% coverage and participate in peer code reviews.

Documentation and Communication

• Design shall include sequence diagram for major use cases.

• Document technical specifications, architecture, and design decisions.

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and deliverables.

Reporting

• A weekly report communicating project progress and status.

• Resource will report activity on a weekly basis to communicate progress made on the programs/projects.

• Weekly time reporting on JIS provided forms.

REQUIREMENTS & EXPERIENCE

Preferred Skills:

• Front-end utilizing React and/or Angular.

• RabbitMQ or Kafka for message queuing.

• Elastic search.

• Analyze complex technical challenges and propose effective solutions.

• Excellent verbal communication skills

• The use of design patterns.

• Kubernetes for container orchestration.

• RESTful APis and web services.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, or a related field 

Location: Work shall be performed in a hybrid setting each week, Monday through Friday at 189 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401.            

Salary:

The likely salary range is up to $135K. 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.