Senior Backend Engineer - Microservices

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Computer Programming, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Senior Backend Engineer - Microservices

In this senior engineering role, you will design, build, and support scalable microservices powering critical enterprise systems. You will collaborate across product, architecture, and cloud engineering teams, ensuring high-quality delivery within a modern, cloud-native platform. This role offers the opportunity to apply deep technical expertise while shaping best practices and mentoring others.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

• Architect and develop microservices using Java and Spring Boot
• Engineer solutions leveraging Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
• Create efficient SQL queries and data pipelines for high-availability systems
• Implement CI/CD automation using Jenkins and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform
• Develop robust unit tests with JUnit and drive continuous code quality improvements
• Lead peer code reviews and support engineering standards adoption
• Deliver production support with strong incident resolution and root-cause analysis
• Support agile execution and ensure accurate work tracking

What You’ll Need to Succeed - Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.

Alternative Path: If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Required Experience

• 13+ years of experience delivering microservices architecture
• Expert-level Java and Spring Boot proficiency
• Hands-on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery)
• Strong SQL and database performance tuning skills
• Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Terraform IaC
• Proven ability to produce comprehensive JUnit coverage and ensure code quality
• Conducting peer code reviews and providing actionable feedback
• Experience with agile project tools (VersionOne or similar)
• Production support experience including incident management and troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications

• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Microservices design patterns and advanced distributed-systems concepts
• Experience supporting high-traffic, large-scale platforms
• Open-source contributions

Security Clearance Level:

• This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Remote

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000. 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

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