Microservices Developer

General Dynamics Information Technology

Microservices Developer/Engineer contributing to USPS software development, designing scalable APIs and integrating services with AWS. Collaborating with diverse teams to enhance backend performance and reliability.

Posted 6/30/2026full-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
Implementing input validation, error handling, idempotency, and standardized response models
Integrating services with on-prem and AWS-hosted databases during migration phases
Optimizing database interactions, including query tuning, connection pooling, and transaction boundaries
Managing secrets and configuration using AWS-native and Kubernetes-native approaches
Adding observability: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting
Troubleshooting incidents across application, container, cluster, network, and database layers
Improving resiliency with retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation patterns
Participating in migration planning from on-prem infrastructure and data stores to AWS
Supporting release validation in staging and production, including rollback readiness
Writing and maintaining unit, integration, contract, and performance tests
Addressing vulnerabilities by upgrading dependencies and remediating CVEs in application libraries
Collaborating with QA, platform, security, and architecture teams on standards and best practices
Documenting APIs, operational runbooks, and service ownership responsibilities

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in Java development
At least 2 years of microservices development experience
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred
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
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
Experience implementing secure service-to-service and client authentication/authorization

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
401K with company match
Paid time off
Full flex work weeks where possible
Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
15 days of paid leave per calendar year
10 paid holidays per year
GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides up to 160 hours of paid leave in a 12 month period
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life and accident insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

Java 21Java 25Microservices DevelopmentDatabase OptimizationInput ValidationError HandlingUnit TestingIntegration TestingPerformance TestingSecurity Vulnerability Remediation

Soft Skills

CollaborationTroubleshootingDocumentation