Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company serving various U.S. government agencies. They are seeking a Microservices Developer/Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for USPS customers, focusing on RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
Responsibilities
- Implement input validation, error handling, idempotency, and standardized response models
- Integrate services with on-prem and AWS-hosted databases during migration phases
- Plan and execute data-access changes to support hybrid connectivity (on-prem to AWS) safely
- Optimize database interactions, including query tuning, connection pooling, and transaction boundaries
- Manage secrets and configuration using AWS-native and Kubernetes-native approaches
- Add observability: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting
- Troubleshoot incidents across application, container, cluster, network, and database layers
- Improve resiliency with retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation patterns
- Participate in migration planning from on-prem infrastructure and data stores to AWS
- Support release validation in staging and production, including rollback readiness
- Write and maintain unit, integration, contract, and performance tests
- Address vulnerabilities by upgrading dependencies and remediating CVEs in application libraries
- Collaborate with QA, platform, security, and architecture teams on standards and best practices
- Document APIs, operational runbooks, and service ownership responsibilities
Skills
- 8+ years of related experience
- 8+ years of experience in Java development, with at least 2 years of microservices development experience
- Ability to design, build, and maintain Spring Boot microservices using Java 21 and Java 25
- Ability to create and evolve RESTful APIs with clear contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Experience with Agile development environments with tools like VersionOne (or similar platform)
- Experience with containerized services and maintain production-ready Docker images
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes with health probes, resource limits, and autoscaling
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security scan, and deployment automation
- Experience implementing secure service-to-service and client authentication/authorization
- Experience developing production-grade microservices using Java 21 and Java 25
- Implementing clean and consistent API contracts, and ensuring secure, reliable integration with internal and external systems
- Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and QA teams to deliver high-quality releases, support deployment and validation in staging and production, and troubleshoot issues across distributed environments
- Strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, and a commitment to continuous improvement are essential for success in this role
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred
- Alternative Path: If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- 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
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- 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
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
Company Overview
General Dynamics Information Technology is an IT consulting company that specializes in cyber security, AI, and quantum computing. It is a sub-organization of General Dynamics. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.gdit.com/.