CCaR - Senior Software Engineer (Java/Spring Boot)

Location: Remote; U.S. citizenship required. Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance is required. Some travel may be required.

Salary: $140,000–$160,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides custom software products and government financial management services for government agencies.

What you will do

• Own application capabilities from requirements analysis and solution design through API development, testing, deployment, verification, and sustainment.
• Build, enhance, modernize, and sustain enterprise applications used for DoD/DoW program and financial management.
• Design and evolve relational data models, including tables, keys, constraints, indexes, and Oracle schemas.
• Develop backend functionality with Java and Spring Boot and contribute to Angular frontend work as needed.
• Manage changes through build, security scanning, testing, deployment, and verification in government-approved cloud environments.
• Investigate defects, participate in architecture decisions, review code, and communicate technical approaches clearly.

Requirements

• At least seven years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on Java and Spring Boot experience.
• A bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, software engineering, information systems, mathematics, or a closely related technical discipline; eleven or more years of relevant technical training or professional experience may substitute for education.
• Depth in relational databases, including schema design and non-trivial SQL; Oracle experience is preferred.
• Working familiarity with a modern frontend framework such as Angular or React.
• Experience delivering software through CI/CD into a cloud environment using a mainstream toolchain.
• Recent hands-on experience with Java 21 or 25.
• Ability to work with unfamiliar code, understand systems end to end, and make sound decisions about improving, refactoring, replacing, or retaining existing solutions.
• Ability to sit, type, hear, see, speak, and work at a computer for extended periods, communicate accurately, and lift or carry at least 15 pounds.
• U.S. citizenship is required. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; selected applicants are subject to a federal background investigation.

Nice to have

• Experience with JPA/Hibernate, JDBC, Flyway, or Liquibase.
• Experience with AWS services, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with static analysis, dependency scanning, artifact promotion, provenance, and CI/CD pipeline development.
• Experience with PKI, certificate management, TLS, secrets management, FIPS-validated cryptography, and secure DoD/DoW software development.
• Experience with STIGs, RMF, ATO processes, federal financial management, PPBE, or DoD/DoW systems acquisition.
• Production experience using AI-enabled development tools while validating outputs and recognizing their limitations.
• Active Secret clearance is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a normal Monday–Friday schedule; additional hours or weekends may be required to meet deadlines or travel obligations.
• Employer-paid health, dental, vision, disability, AD&D, and life insurance for eligible employees.
• Flexible spending, voluntary life, and supplemental insurance plans.
• Eleven paid holidays, PTO starting at three weeks per year, and a 401(k) safe harbor contribution upon eligibility.
• Relocation expenses are not compensated; all jobs are employer-paid and no candidate fees apply.

Hiring process

• All candidates considered for the role must complete an approximately 60-minute technical assessment covering coding, testing, debugging, problem-solving, technical requirements, and attention to detail.
• Reasonable accommodations for the assessment can be requested from Human Resources in advance.
• Third-party or agency inquiries are not accepted.