Web Application Developer, Military-Civilian Home, Falls Church, VA

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities:
The successful candidate’s core responsibilities will include, but not to be limited to:

• Participating in the full agile application development life cycle for new development design, construction and testing of Java/J2EE web applications, Web Services (SOAP), and reusable components to support overall project objectives.
• Participating in peer reviews and unit testing, and must be adaptable to different responsibilities, possess strong communications skills, and have a passion for constantly improving the individual and team effectiveness.
• Contributing to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organization; contributes to acceptance/functional testing duties and part of incremental feature development.
• Adhering to, promoting, and helping maintain development standards and best practices; participates in regular code reviews.
• Assisting development/test teams in activities with acceptance testing, load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning as required.
• Communicating committed stories for the upcoming sprint to backlog owners and stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 3+ years of hands on development experience with open source Java stack. An equivalent combination of education, certification, and relevant experience may be considered.
• Deep understanding and experience with designing and implementing highly scalable web applications.
• Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery.
• Familiarity with agile incremental delivery approach which supports incremental development of high-quality, fully tested J2EE application component delivery every 2 weeks.
• Familiarity with J2EE/Java Frameworks, programming experience and overall Java development techniques to perform daily Java development, automated unit testing, and troubleshooting responsibilities.
• Experience with object-oriented programming or an entire software development life cycle in an academic or professional environment.
• Experience in a rapid prototyping environment.
• Ability to effectively work in a team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship is required. Candidates selected must be able to successfully pass a thorough Government background investigation.

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Currently holds a DHS Public Trust Clearance.
• Certified in Lean Software Development, Kanban, Scrum and other Agile processes.
• Department Health Agency (DHA) Experience.