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Junior Software Developer

@ CGI

Position Description:

CGI is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, junior SW developer to join a high-performing Agile team in designing and building modern, services-based web applications for a large government agency. Our team is using a modern development stack and various additional open-source technologies. You will have the opportunity to help build and modernize the system applications for cloud deployment. Grow your leadership and technical skills with in-demand technologies in a fast-paced environment as part of an exciting, positive team that moves quickly and delivers quality software alongside a passionate customer.

This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office, however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

The candidate's responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• As a junior software developer, you will help define and code the ongoing architecture and development of an emerging application
• Confidently code and organize the application using best practices while helping to share their knowledge with the team and grow the teams' skills and understanding of robust Java applications.
• Participate in all phases of an Agile software development lifecycle, including application design/requirements gathering, estimating development activities, authoring application code, participating in code reviews, and testing the software.
• Authoring and reviewing web application - using AI paired programming techniques - code in Angular, Java, JavaScript, etc.
• Deploying application to Kubernetes
• Base understanding of data structures (document form, JSON/YAML), problem solving, algorithm design and analysis
• Extensive use of the Spring Framework: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data, etc.
• Gaining experience in RESTful systems - specifically relating to API designs
• Participating in daily team discussions and code collaboration to promote continuous progress
• Participating in client, industry, and end-user discussions to help provide technical viewpoint on the application.
• Participating in technical design sessions to create sustainable, high-performing features and providing accurate estimates and development timelines.
• Continuous improvement of existing development tools and technologies
• Authoring automated testing script for the application
• Augmenting and improving system architecture
• Gaining a general understanding of database design and optimizing application access to backend data

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Qualifications:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Worked in Agile environment
• Demonstrated understanding and at least 2 years of work experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Java (frontend and backend) development.
• Experience with various AI paired programming tooling
• Exposure to a modern Java software development environment and tools such as Maven, Git, Tomcat, Eclipse, Bamboo, Hibernate, etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other similar technologies.
• Positive, can-do attitude, and desire to contribute in various means to team success.
• Confident communication skills with both internal team members as well as customers.
• Ability to work independently as well as within a dynamic team environment on development tasks and continuously deliver quality code for team review and product owner demonstration.
• Ability to quickly research, learn, and apply emerging technologies within the software development industry.
• Minimum Years of directly related experience Required: 2 years

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:

• Development - Java / JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring - REST JAX-RS, Web Services, Security, Controllers/Service, Spring Data ORM (Hibernate/JPA 2), JSON
• AWS Serverless Services – SQS, SNS, SES, Step, Lambda
• AWS Analytics – Glue, Redshift, EMR, OpenSearch, Athena, Sagemaker, Quicksight
• Event Streaming - Kafka
• Web Server – Apache, Application Server – Jboss EAP
• Open Source Frameworks - various includes e.g. commons-
  • , ehcache, velocity, aopalliance, mail, swagger, etc.
  • User authentication and authorization - ForgeRock's OpenAM, SecureAuth and Okta.
  • UI/UX – Angular, Bootstrap
  • Databases – AWS RDS for Oracle and PostgreSQL
  • Log Management – DataDog
  • Alerts and Monitoring - Datadog, Google Analytics, New Relic
  • CICD - Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Selenium
  • Load Testing – Jmeter
  • Code Mgmt: Git, GitHub
  • tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, SourceTree, etc.)
  • Consulting experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline preferred.

  Skills:

  • Application Development
  • Back End Development
  • Back End Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • AWS AI Services
  • English

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How to Apply:

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