Junior Java / Web Services Developer (Remote)

This is a remote position.

Where you’ll be working – United States Patent and Trademark Office – Remotely

What you’ll be doing – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is re-designing the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure associated with the patent examination process into a State-of-the-Art Information Technology infrastructure. A new architecture has been designed, which includes a service-oriented architecture, enterprise workflow management, content management and database systems resulting in a fundamental redesign of patent processing and operations. You will be providing highly technical and specialized guidance, and solutions to complex software engineering challenges. You will be performing software engineering analysis and design; estimating software development costs and schedule; conducting systems design, development, and integration activities using accepted software engineering practices and design techniques.

What you'll need –

• Design and develop Restful Web Services across multi-node clustered environments
  
• Utilizing Security/Authentication frameworks like SAML, Oauth or OpenID Connect
  
• Using entire Spring framework (MVC, Security, JPA/data).
  
• With Code quality tools such as Sonar, PMD, JACoCo, Cobertura, Findbugs etc
  
• JAXB/Jackson  java APIs (parsing, transforming, formatting etc)
  
• Utilize SCM Technologies (Git,  SVN, CVS)  for version and configuration management.
  
• Build and deployment using pipeline automation tools (Jenkins, puppet, chef, etc.)
  
• Develop utilizing scrum/agile, SDLC, with online Issue Boards (Jira, Rally, etc) for coordinating collaborative  story work
  
• Interface with Alfresco Activiti and CMS
  
• Work with Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.)
  
• Conduct XML manipulation, analysis and transformations using tools such as XPATH and XSLT.
  
• Build Junit/TestNG test harnesses including in-memory databases using DBUnit, JMockit and Mockito
  
• Environment include: Linux, Amazon AWS, Apache Tomcat, Spring MVC+SECURITY+JPA/DATA, XSL, Oracle 11g, Maven, Jenkins, JavaScript, and Web Services.
  
• Configures and deploys WAR/TAR files.
  
• Other duties as assigned
  

Position requirements –

• EAD visa, green card, or US citizenship
  
• Must have maintained a residence in the US for at least 2 years.
  
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, or related field (additional relevant experience may be substituted for education)
  
• 3+ years of software development experience including 1 year professional experience in the US
  
• Proficiency with Java and Restful
  
• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology
  
• Candidate must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance