Senior Backend Java Developer at AHU Technologies Recruitment in DC-Washington-20009
- Company: AHU Technologies Recruitment
- Location: DC-Washington-20009
- Posted: Sep 17, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour
- Experience: 16+ years
Overview
The Senior JAVA Developer position requires in-depth knowledge of JAVA and J2EE background using Spring Technologies framework, design, and architectural styles /API’s (REST/RPC) and Agile methodologies for the development of application programs.
Job description
- The Senior JAVA Developer position requires in-depth knowledge of JAVA and J2EE background using Spring Technologies framework, design, and architectural styles /API’s (REST/RPC) and Agile methodologies for the development of application programs.
- Complete Description:
- The role will require you to design, develop and test using JAVA technologies which will facilitate application development and implementation from development to QA to production. You will work to gain an understanding of the current system infrastructure, security needs, network considerations, and methodologies.
- In this role, you will primarily focus on JAVA programming and supporting the ecosystem for the organization.
Responsibilities
- The Senior JAVA Developer position requires in-depth knowledge of JAVA and J2EEbackground using Spring Technologies framework, design, and architectural styles /API’s (REST/RPC) and Agile methodologies for the development of application programs. The Senior Developer will be writing clean, scalable code using JAVA programming languages, refactor and debug code, improve existing software, test, and deploy applications and systems. The resource will be required to develop documentation throughout the lifecycle of the development process and provide technical support to the team.
- ·Ensure that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.
- ·Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
- ·Develop, Test and Deploy applications and systems
- ·Revise, update, refactor and debug code
- ·Improve existing JAVA applications and systems
- ·Proactively monitors and reports performance utilization of assigned technologies.
- ·Troubleshoot software and/or hardware issues/failures.
- ·Manage problems or escalated tickets and tasks and out-of-cycle requests from systems/software owners.
- ·Determine the best course of action for meeting business needs and provide consultative expertise to customers on how to best use systems.
- ·Proactively monitors and identifies broader, more complex issues across multiple, integrated, connecting technologies and communicate as appropriate.
- ·Provides technical knowledge and support to District agencies, personnel, and additional stakeholders
- · Performs other related duties as assigned
- ·May coordinate activities of application developers.
- ·Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
- ·Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications
- ·Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts
- ·May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- 1. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
- 2. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/products. This is a professional position which may require subject matter expertise consistent with demanding and rare technological skills.
- 3. May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team.
- 4. Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design.
- 5. Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements.
- 6. Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders.
- 7. May coordinate activities of application developers.
- 8. Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
- 9. Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems.
- 10. Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies.
- 11. Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies.
- 12. Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
- 13. Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.
- 14. Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
- 15. May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).
- 16. Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
- · Experience with core JAVA development with strong back-end developme
- · JAVA – Annotations, Generics, Reflection, Inheritance, OO Design, NIO, Bean Validation
- · Spring Boot Application Development Experience
- · Spring – Java Config, Dependency Injection, Autowiring Concepts
- · Spring Integration Development Experience
- · Spring Web Services Development Experience
- · Synchronous and Asynchronous programming experience – Callbacks, Future, Timeout and Error Handling
- · Experience with MAVEN Project Build experience
- · Experience with GIT version control repository
- · Experience with Tomcat/Jetty/undertow Application Servers
- · Experience with LINUX working environment
- · Experience with JIRA Issue tracker
- · 16+ yrs. conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty
- · 16+ yrs. preparing complex technical documentation
- · Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
- · RedHat Openshift Container-based application development and deployment experience
- · Working with mainframe CICS containers and channels using JCA connectors
- · Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practice
- · Must have enough experience to qualify for a Master Level position.
Skills
Required
- JAVA
- J2EE
- Spring Technologies framework
- REST/RPC APIs
- Agile methodologies
- Spring Boot Application Development
- Spring Integration Development
- Spring Web Services Development
- MAVEN Project Build
- GIT version control repository
- LINUX working environment
- JIRA Issue tracker
Benefits
- Compensation: $80.00 - $85.00 per hour
About AHU Technologies Recruitment
client will be modernizing the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles Enterprise Application Destiny project to leverage new digital technologies such as cloud computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence and mobile that are required to create modern experience for customers and partners of DC DMV. Modernizing the DMV Enterprise Application Destiny helps DCDMV improve their services to citizens, enhance government operations while strengthening the overall data security. To address these challenges, the OCTO-DMV team is looking to hire highly skilled individuals to rapidly connect DMV Enterprise Destiny Application with modern technology while minimizing disruption to the existing systems. AHU Technologies INC. is an IT consulting and permanent staffing firm that meets and exceeds the evolving IT service needs of leading corporations within the United States. We have been providing IT solutions to customers from different industry sectors, helping them control costs and release internal resources to focus on strategic issues. AHU Technologies INC. was co-founded by visionary young techno-commercial entrepreneurs who remain as our principal consultants. Maintaining working relationships with a cadre of other highly skilled independent consultants, we have a growing number of resources available for development projects. We are currently working on Various projects such as media entertainment, ERP Solutions, data warehousing, Web Applications, Telecommunications and medical to our clients all over the world.