Senior Software Engineer (Java/ Cloud)

Title: Senior Software Engineer (Java/ Cloud)
Location: Remote (U.S. Based)
Terms: Full-time
Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required and ability to obtain and maintain a High-Level Public Trust clearance supporting USPTO
Travel: 0–10%

RESULTS. INNOVATION. VALUES. ACCOUNTABILITY.

That’s RIVA. Our employee-first approach has manifested a culture that attracts the best and brightest. By investing in people first and providing a flexible work environment, our employees have higher morale, higher productivity rates, and lower turnover. At RIVA, people are our #1 priority.

Program Overview

RIVA Solutions supports the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by delivering modern, secure, and scalable enterprise software systems that support mission-critical business operations across the patent and trademark lifecycle.

RIVA partners closely with USPTO stakeholders to design, build, deploy, and operate complex systems using modern Java/Spring technologies, cloud-native architectures, and DevSecOps practices. Our work emphasizes long-term maintainability, system reliability, security, and operational excellence in highly visible federal environments.

Position Overview

RIVA Solutions is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer who is a hands-on senior engineer, not a purely feature-focused developer. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong system design instincts, and direct ownership of production systems.

The ideal candidate has experience building, deploying, and supporting complex applications in live environments and is comfortable being accountable for system behavior after release. This role is well-suited for an engineer who enjoys owning systems end-to-end, including deployment support, troubleshooting production issues, addressing technical debt, and improving operational reliability.

This is not a greenfield-only or heads-down coding role. The Senior Full Stack Developer will collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and DevOps teams to bridge legacy systems and modern cloud-based solutions while ensuring code quality, scalability, and system stability.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java-based applications with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
• Take hands-on ownership of production systems, including supporting deployments, troubleshooting production issues, and resolving incidents
• Lead full-stack development efforts across backend services and front-end integrations, with a backend-leaning focus
• Architect and implement services using Java 20+, Spring Core, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud
• Design and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs
• Participate directly in CI/CD pipeline troubleshooting, deployment support, and release validation using GitLab and SonarQube
• Manage build automation and dependency management using Maven
• Implement and enforce testing strategies using TDD and BDD, leveraging JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, and Spock
• Build accessibility considerations into application design and implementation, ensuring compliance with Section 508 standards
• Support containerized and serverless workloads in AWS, including ECS, Fargate, and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to understand, maintain, and troubleshoot Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar tools)
• Make informed architectural trade-offs related to performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational risk
• Conduct code reviews, mentor other developers, and uphold engineering best practices
• Ensure system uptime, performance, and stability across development, test, and production environments

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) and 10+ years of experience, or Master’s degree (MA/MS) and 8+ years of experience in software development
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java 20+ and object-oriented design principles
• Strong expertise with Oracle databases and advanced SQL
• Deep knowledge of the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud)
• Proven experience designing and supporting distributed systems and service-based architectures
• Demonstrated ownership of production systems, including post-depl