Junior Software Developer

About Cogent Infotech
Cogent Infotech is a global IT consulting and technology solutions company headquartered in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. We help organizations solve complex business challenges through innovative and scalable technology solutions across AI/ML analytics cloud cybersecurity application development workforce solutions and public-sector services.
With more than two decades of experience Cogent has completed 10000 projects supports 150 U.S. government contracts and works with 70 Fortune 500 companies. Our focus is on delivering technology-driven solutions that help organizations modernize operate efficiently and build future-ready capabilities.

Job Title: Junior Software Developer
Experience: 2 Years
Location: Lafayette LA or Knoxville TN Hybrid
Salary: $52k$123k per annum

Job Summary
We are seeking a Junior Software Developer to join an Agile software development team building and modernizing services-based web applications. The ideal candidate will contribute to the design development testing and continuous improvement of modern enterprise applications using a Java-focused development stack and cloud-native technologies.
This role provides an opportunity to work across the software development lifecycle develop technical and leadership skills collaborate with cross-functional teams and gain hands-on experience with technologies including Java Spring Boot Angular Kubernetes Docker AWS and AI-assisted development tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define and develop application architecture and ongoing software development using modern engineering practices.
• Develop and organize application code using best practices while contributing technical knowledge and learning from experienced team members.
• Participate in all phases of the Agile software development lifecycle including requirements gathering design estimation coding code reviews and software testing.
• Develop and review web application code using AI-assisted paired programming techniques with Angular Java JavaScript and related technologies.
• Deploy applications to Kubernetes environments.
• Apply knowledge of data structures including JSON and YAML problem-solving algorithm design and algorithm analysis.
• Develop applications using the Spring Framework including Spring Boot Spring Batch and Spring Data.
• Build and enhance RESTful systems with a focus on API design.
• Participate in daily team discussions technical collaboration and code reviews to support continuous progress.
• Participate in client industry and end-user discussions and provide technical input on application capabilities.
• Contribute to technical design sessions sustainable and high-performing features estimates and development timelines.
• Continuously improve development tools processes and technologies.
• Create and maintain automated testing scripts for applications.
• Contribute to improvements in system architecture and application performance.
• Develop a general understanding of database design and optimize application access to backend data.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of directly related software development experience.
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
• At least 2 years of experience with HTML CSS JavaScript and Java development across front-end and back-end applications.
• Experience with AI-assisted paired programming tools.
• Exposure to modern Java development tools and environments such as Maven Git Tomcat Eclipse Bamboo and Hibernate.
• Experience with Kubernetes Docker or similar container technologies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic development environment.
• Ability to consistently deliver quality code for team review and product owner demonstration.
• Strong communication skills with internal team members and customers.
• Positive can-do attitude and willingness to contribute across a wide range of team activities.
• Ability to research learn and apply emerging software development technologies quickly.

Desired Qualifications

• Java/JEE Spring Framework Spring Boot Spring REST/JAX-RS Web Services Security Controllers/Services and Spring Data ORM using Hibernate/JPA 2.
• JSON and modern web application development.
• AWS Serverless Services including SQS SNS SES Step Functions and Lambda.
• AWS Analytics services including Glue Redshift EMR OpenSearch Athena SageMaker and QuickSight.
• Event streaming technologies such as Kafka.
• Web and application servers such as Apache and JBoss EAP.
• Open-source frameworks and libraries including commons-* libraries Ehcache Velocity AOP Alliance Mail Swagger and related technologies.
• User authentication and authorization technologies such as ForgeRock OpenAM SecureAuth and Okta.
• UI/UX technologies including Angular and Bootstrap.
• Databases including AWS RDS for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Log management and monitoring tools such as Datadog Google Analytics and New Relic.
• CI/CD and engineering tools including Jenkins SonarQube Nexus and Selenium.
• Load testing using JMeter.
• Code management tools including Git and GitHub.
• Collaboration and project tools such as JIRA Confluence Bitbucket and SourceTree.
• Consulting experience.
• Exposure to AWS AI services and application development involving artificial intelligence.

Education
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or another technical discipline preferred.

Key Skills
Application Development Back-End Development Java JavaScript HTML CSS Spring Boot Spring Framework REST APIs Angular Artificial Intelligence AI-Assisted Development AWS Kubernetes Docker Maven Git GitHub Hibernate CI/CD Automated Testing.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Cogent Infotech is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining an inclusive workplace. Employment decisions are made without discrimination based on any characteristic protected by applicable law.