senior full stack engineer (heavy backend / ai-assisted).

job summary:
Fully onsite in McLean VA

 
 
location: McLean, Virginia
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 90 per hour
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:
Be able to perform following Responsibilities:

- End-to-end software development - including analysis, planning, architecture, design,

development, automated testing, deployment, and maintenance using industry best practices and

security standards.

- Performance optimization - analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement

solutions to enhance application efficiency and scalability.

- Collaborative solution delivery - partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements,

leverage proof of concepts for technical decisions, and implement solutions with cross-functional

teams.

- Production support and maintenance - support applications across environments, resolve critical

issues, and fulfill ad-hoc requests to ensure seamless business operations.

 
qualifications:
Required Experience & Education

- 5-7+ years of professional software development experience.

Candidate should have/be:

· Strong analytical skills.

· Be able to reason with and communicate ideas they bring to the table.

· Be open minded for others' ideas. A motivated team player.

· Have experience using at least one Coding Agent enabled IDE (e.g. VSCode, Amazon Kiro)

· Have experience working with atleast AI Coding Agents (e.g. Claude Code, Codex)

Strong proficiency Databases

· Very Good understanding of RDBMS (e.g. MS SQL or PostgreSQL).

· Write advanced SQL queries (thorough understanding of JOINs).

· Performance tuning of SQLs.

Strong proficiency in below programming tools, languages & Frameworks

· Proficiency working with Docker containers.

· Understanding of the use of containers in the development process.

· Understanding of application lifecycle management.

· Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline (e.g. JIRA, Jenkins) to deploy applications.

· Java 8 (or above), I/O, Multithreading, Collections, Generics, Lambda

· REST API Web Services, GraphQL API query language.

· Spring Core, MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Sprint Data (JPA), Dependency Injection, DAO (Data Access Object), JTA, JDBC

· HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, Angular 9 or above.

· Apache Tomcat, Jetty Server.

· Maven, Gradle, Junit/ Mockito, Cucumber.

· Design Patterns like MVC, Singleton, Session, Facade, Factory, DAO (Data Access Object), DTO

· XML technologies and XML parsers.

· JSON technologies

· ORM framework - Hibernate

· Streaming technology - Kafka

· AWS EKS


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At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.