Software Systems Engineer II

iQuasar LLC is a proud partner of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) and the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program, reflecting our strong commitment to supporting military spouses, veterans, and inclusive hiring practices. The engineer will work on the DHS-approved application stack, commit code regularly to the enterprise repository, maintain unit and automated testing coverage, and participate in secure CI/CD deployments.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

iQuasar LLC has an exciting opportunity for a Software Systems Engineer II to join our growing team.  The Software Systems Engineer II will develop, integrate, test, deploy, and support software within an assigned ICAM workstream. The engineer will work on the DHS-approved application stack, commit code regularly to the enterprise repository, maintain unit and automated testing coverage, and participate in secure CI/CD deployments. This is a software engineering role with production accountability. Candidates must be prepared to support Tier 2 and Tier 3 troubleshooting and to remain involved after code is deployed. 

We are seeking a Software Systems Engineer II for a contract position. 

• Position: Software Systems Engineer II
• Position Type: Full-time-Remote

Role Specific Duties/ Role Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, integrate, test, and maintain software for an assigned ICAM workstream. 
• Develop application components using Java, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, and MySQL. 
• Commit code daily to the approved enterprise repository. 
• Participate in source-control branching, peer review, merging, and release-management practices. 
• Develop and maintain unit tests and automated test coverage. 
• Work with test engineers to resolve defects and validate release readiness. 
• Support CI/CD pipeline execution and zero-downtime deployments. 
• Develop code that meets security, quality, performance, and Section 508 expectations. 
• Support integrations between ICAM applications and internal or external systems. 
• Troubleshoot application, integration, configuration, data, and performance issues. 
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 incident support for assigned applications. 
• Participate in root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and after-action activities. 
• Write or maintain user stories, technical documentation, system-design materials, and operational procedures. 
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives. 

RequiredQualifications:

• Hands-on software development experience using Java. 
• Experience with Spring or Spring Boot. 
• Experience with Hibernate or comparable Java persistence frameworks. 
• Experience with Angular or comparable modern JavaScript frameworks. 
• Experience working with relational databases such as MySQL. 
• Experience with Git-based source control and regular code commits. 
• Experience developing and maintaining unit or automated tests. 
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Experience participating in CI/CD software delivery. 
• Ability to troubleshoot application and integration issues in non-production and production environments. 
• Ability to provide Tier 2 or Tier 3 technical support. 
• Ability to obtain and maintain favorable DHS EOD, suitability, and required system access. 

Preferred Qualification:

• Prior DHS, or federal civilian software engineering experience. 
• Experience developing ICAM, IAM, SSO, OAuth/OIDC, PKI, PAM, account-management, or access-control applications. 
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, SonarQube, Selenium, Nexus, Jira, and Confluence. 
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Docker, EKS, or hybrid-cloud environments. 
• Experience with zero-downtime deployments, stateless microservices, and production DevOps support. 
• Experience developing Section 508-compliant applications. 
• Experience with secure coding and remediation of static or dynamic security findings. 

iQuasar LLC is a proud partner of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) and the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Program, reflecting our strong commitment to supporting military spouses, veterans, and inclusive hiring practices. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital/parental/veteran status, disability, genetic information, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, military service, non-merit factors, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. 

This is a remote position.