Sr. Software Engineer (Java)

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Java) you will design, develop, and deliver high-quality software solutions that align with business goals. You’ll build scalable APIs and back-end services in Java (Spring Boot) and contribute to Angular front-end integrations, following industry best practices, SOLID principles, and modern architectural patterns.

You will lead software delivery in agile, TDD/BDD, and CI/CD environments, collaborating with cross-functional partners and continuously adopting new tools and techniques to enhance performance, automation, and scalability. From requirements through deployment and documentation, you’ll play a key role across the full development lifecycle. We are committed to continuous growth and upskilling so you can develop versatile, high-impact skills over your career with us.

What you will do:

• Understand business goals and drivers and translate those into an appropriate technical solution.
• Translate business goals and user needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Engineer and deliver Java (Spring Boot) APIs and back-end services using standard frameworks and architectural patterns.
• Contribute to and integrate with Angular front-end applications (component-driven development, REST/JSON).
• Write well-engineered code that adheres to SOLID principles and secure coding practices.
• Lead and participate in code-quality activities: perform code reviews, enforce standards, improve test coverage, and use static analysis; be receptive to coaching/feedback from senior/lead engineers and provide coaching to peers.
• Actively use TDD/BDD (pair programming where applicable) to guide implementation and ensure maintainability.
• Drive releases in a CI/CD environment (build, test, deploy, monitor), partnering with DevOps as needed.
• Support the full SDLC—from requirements and estimation through deployment, monitoring, and documentation.
• Continuously learn and apply new tools/techniques to improve performance, automation, and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, engineers, and technical writers on larger delivery teams.

What you will bring:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent experience/certifications.
• 5+ years as a software engineer in an Agile environment.
• Java expertise (most important) with strong hands-on experience in Spring Boot.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs; proficient with JUnit or similar testing frameworks.
• Working experience with Angular (v2+) and TypeScript for integrating front-end features with back-end services.
• Relational database skills with PostgreSQL and/or Oracle (SQL, schema design, troubleshooting).
• Proficiency with Git and work tracking in Jira; strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct code reviews, uphold code quality, and apply/receive coaching to improve team practices.
• Proven problem-solving skills, proactive risk identification, and clear communication to diverse audiences.

Bonus Points:

• GitLab (SCM & CI/CD), pipelines, and quality gates.
• Azure (including Azure DevOps) and cloud-native services; exposure to AWS is a plus.
• .NET exposure for cross-stack collaboration or legacy integration.
• Oracle database depth (PL/SQL, performance tuning).
• Experience with static analysis, SAST/DAST, SonarQube, and automated test frameworks (unit/integration/e2e).
• Observability practices (logging/metrics/tracing), performance profiling, and reliability engineering basics.

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.

Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.

We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics. As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization.

Compensation and benefits:

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. We are hiring for multiple levels under this job posting. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. The range for this specific role is from $94,000 to $149,000 depending on experience. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.