Senior Software Engineer

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.