Software Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Software Engineer for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Rockville, MD.

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with strong experience in Java, AWS services, Angular JS, and modern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or GitLab). You will help design, build, and deploy scalable enterprise applications, integrate cloud-native capabilities, and support end-to-end application lifecycle workflows in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy enterprise applications using Java, AWS services, and Angular JS.
• Develop scalable RESTful APIs and microservices using Spring Boot and related Java frameworks.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD for application testing and deployment with robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems in production.
• Optimize application workloads using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, RDS, and API Gateway.
• Familiarity with containerization using Docker and orchestration with ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing full-stack solutions integrating backend Java services with Angular JS frontends.
• Knowledge of modern DevOps tools and practices
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases (RDS, MongoDB).
• Background in security, compliance, and application security best practices.

Required Skills

• At least 5 years of Java development experience, 3+ years of AWS services experience, and 2+ years of Angular JS experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
• Demonstrable experience using AI tooling for SDLC.
• System design experience
• Strong experience in object-oriented development
• Strong experience with cloud technologies
• Strong experience in data storage technologies
• Experience in performance tuning and optimization
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies
• Experience test automation and unit testing
• Software Security

Preferred Skills

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.
• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.