Software Developer (Full Scope Poly required)

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Cohere is seeking a few creative software developers to join one of our cornerstone business solutions teams supporting a classified customer. On this program, we are undertaking an aggressive talent and DevOps transformation that builds on the success of our web-based services. Our world-class teams embrace Agile values and use Agile driven software development cycle with continuous integration to develop software applications. We are looking for developers with a genuine passion to learn, create quality solutions, and solve tough challenges. 

You will be challenged to create and to innovate. You will deliver functional requirements and technical solutions by coordinating with product owners, product teams, and IT cross functional groups. You will be responsible for designing, developing, testing (automation), deploying, and self-documenting working software. The successful candidate will bring strong critical thinking skills and impeccable judgement to prioritize multiple efforts and make a long-lasting impact for our customer.

 

There are multiple positions open for our new project. This particular job is for the Junior to Mid Developer, but there are Senior and Architect level positions open as well. So, if you are a Full-Stack Developer with any amount of experience, I encourage you to apply.

 

 

You will:

 

Work on everything from backend to user-interfaces and content management, to messaging and web services.

Design, code, test, and deploy systems. 

Solve complex and challenging business problems with cutting edge technologies.

Challenge beliefs, assumptions, process, and products with a prescient eye to the industry.

“You build it, you own it” - Provide support to identify, resolve and communicate impacts to the business.

Explore new technologies and have fun finding the best tools. While Java is our predominant language, we also use .Net, React, NodeJS, Groovy, Javascript and AngularJS.

 

 

Required Education, Experience, & Skills 

 

Must possess an active Intel Clearance with a favorable polygraph. Will not be considered without it.

  • 5+ years of Java and JavaScript
  • 5+ years of experience with several frameworks including some of the following: Spring, Struts, Grails, Hibernate, JPA
  • Experience with build tools including Maven and Gradle
  • Practical understanding of object-oriented, multi-threaded, and asynchronous programming
  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies

 

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills 

 

Experience with automated testing/scripting

Experience with CSS (2 or 3) and HTML (5)

Experience with Apache Tomcat, Jetty, and OpenSSL

Experience in the role as a Scrum Master

AWS experience

Working knowledge of GitHub using pull requests, feature branching and code versioning

Working knowledge of Jenkins for build/test/delivery automation

 

Additional preferred key skills

  • AWS Cloud Development
  • DevOps support
  • React
  • Java 11+
  • Springboot framework 2.5+
  • JPA/Hibernate
  • X.509 Security
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