Microservices Developer – Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

Microservices Developer creating scalable backend services and maintaining RESTful APIs for USPS. Collaborating across teams for infrastructure migration to AWS and optimizing service resiliency.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $128,039 - $173,229 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerJavaKubernetesMicroservicesSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services that power the platform’s RESTful APIs
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred
If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional four years of relevant work experience will be required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Competitive pay and paid time off
Paid parental leave
Military-friendly workplace
Full flex work weeks where possible
Paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, military and jury duty leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootRESTful APIsmicroservicesDockerKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesinput validationerror handlingquery tuning

Soft Skills

collaborationtroubleshootingdocumentationplanningexecutionresiliency improvementcommunicationteamworkproblem-solvingadaptability