Java Full Stack Engineer

Java Full Stack Engineer Job Description

Cohere is looking for a self-starting, team-oriented Mid‑to‑Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic development team in supporting a Government customer. The team is researching and designing prototypes for large‑scale distributed enterprise micro‑service applications using web technologies, distributed computation and storage frameworks, and sophisticated, cutting‑edge domain analytics, with the system hosted on virtualized and cloud‑computing platforms. The successful candidate will have the ability to work both independently with little supervision as well as engage with a team to achieve overall project objectives.

The Java Full Stack Engineer participates in a development team using Agile methodologies combined with mature software practices and technology‑supported development infrastructure. The role includes executing the full‑lifecycle agile workflow—including daily SCRUMs, story grooming and bidding, and sprint execution—researching, designing, developing, and extending the software baseline to implement new capabilities and mature existing ones using key technologies and frameworks; maintaining the deployed system, diagnosing and resolving issues, and providing support to end‑users as needed;

and providing technical and methodological guidance to the team to make them self‑reliant and highly effective at meeting project objectives. The ideal candidate will have outstanding technical talent, a desire to continuously learn and apply new skills and technologies, and be eager to take on hard problems and develop successful solutions to achieve the overall mission.

• Backend:
  Spring and/or Spring Boot frameworks; web endpoint controllers, Kafka listeners, JPA framework, Testcontainers; microservice architecture, message passing, state sharing; database – Postgre
  
  SQL or any SQL.
• Web app server:
  Familiar (experience preferred) with open‑source web application servers such as Apache HTTP and Tomcat.
• Middle tier – messaging systems:
  Experience with Kafka or any Java‑based message broker—including managing topics, filtering with headers, supporting broad distributed services; experience developing and using RESTful web services, including asynchronous futures.
• Frontend:
  Experience developing with Vue.js front‑end web application platform or similar web framework.

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline and 9+ years of experience or M.S. degree and 7 years of experience.
• 4 years’ experience in Java development with Spring and/or Spring Boot, establishing services for each tier (backend, frontend, web, and middle).
• 3 years’ experience with Vue.js front‑end web application platform and UI components or similar web framework.
• 3 years’ experience with middle‑tier messaging systems, Kafka or similar, and developing and using RESTful web services.
• 3+ years’ experience in Java development with relational database management.

• Experience modeling and simulation and designing and developing secure, cloud‑agnostic applications using Vue.js, Quasar, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, and microservice architectures.