Senior Java Engineer
Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting a remote Senior Java Engineer to support our work with our federal customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.
The Senior Java Engineer will lead the design, development, migration, and support of scalable Java-based microservices and APIs in a modern cloud environment. This role requires strong hands-on engineering capability, technical leadership, and experience modernizing legacy systems.
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):
- Plan and execute migration from legacy monolithic code to modern, scalable Java-based microservices without disrupting live systems.
- Lead API design and development, including specifications, endpoints, data models, and protocols such as REST and GraphQL.
- Lead data strategy and migration of shared databases into service-specific data layers while maintaining data integrity.
- Identify and resolve data or system bottlenecks early in the development lifecycle.
- Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes in AWS, including deployment manifests, Helm, scaling, rollouts, and resource requests/limits.
- Tune and optimize databases through query performance tuning, indexing strategy, connection pooling, migration strategy, and caching patterns.
- Write production-grade code for core services and remain deeply involved in the codebase.
- Ensure seamless API integration with internal systems, external systems, applications, and third-party services.
- Promote adoption of AI in the API development lifecycle, including use of GitHub Copilot for coding.
- Implement authentication, authorization, encryption, and other security best practices to protect data and services.
- Monitor and optimize API performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Support on-call operations.
- Other duties as assigned.