Desktop Application Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance a sophisticated Java desktop application.

• Create and sustain Java Swing functionality, dynamic user interfaces, data-driven workflows, processing logic, and business rules.

• Convert business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, flowcharts, and process diagrams into comprehensive technical designs and application functionality.

• Develop and maintain integrations with Oracle, HSQLDB, Excel/local files, remote systems, and USB-connected devices such as barcode scanners and scales.

• Diagnose application, database, data-processing, hardware-interface, and integration issues across development, testing, and production environments.

• Engage throughout the complete software development life cycle, encompassing requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, production support, code reviews, defect resolution, and releases.

• Create technical documentation and collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, testers, developers, and other technical teams.

• Comply with client development, security, configuration-management, and documentation standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, associate’s degree with 7+ years of experience, or high school diploma/GED with 9+ years of related experience.

• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card holder.

• Must have lived in the U.S. for the past five years, with no more than six months of travel outside the U.S. during this period.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• 4+ years of advanced Java Swing experience in developing and maintaining desktop applications.

• 4+ years of PL/SQL programming experience.

• 2+ years of experience with Spring, Xerces, Com4j, and Apache Commons.

• Strong experience in supporting mature, locally installed, data-driven applications with significant existing business logic.

• In-depth knowledge of RDBMS concepts, relational database design, SQL, Oracle, database connectivity, and local/embedded databases like HSQLDB.

• Experience in processing structured data files, including Microsoft Excel.

• Experience in developing complex workflows, branching logic, decision trees, dynamic user interfaces, and data/configuration-driven business rules.

• Strong understanding of secure Java coding practices and vulnerability mitigation.

• Experience with WiX, GitHub, source control, configuration management, and change management.

• Familiarity with full software development life-cycle activities and Agile methodologies.

• Experience in creating technical designs from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.

• Preferred: Experience with NetBeans IDE, Maven, SonarLint/Sonar, and Jenkins.

• Preferred: Experience integrating Java desktop applications with USB-connected hardware, including barcode scanners and scales.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting statistical sampling, quantitative data collection, or data-analysis applications.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting systems with numerous configurable workflows, processing paths, and complex decision logic.

• Preferred: Experience in analyzing mature codebases and dependencies among application logic, data, configuration, interfaces, and UI components.

• Preferred: Strong technical documentation and business/technical communication skills.

• Preferred: 10+ years of advanced Java/J2EE programming experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime.

• Potential eligibility for shift differential.

• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.

• Equal opportunity employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, or any other characteristics protected by law.