Senior Software Developer - Backend

Senior Backend Software Developer

About Trilogy Innovations

At Trilogy Innovations, we are committed to driving meaningful change for our customers and communities through smart, innovative technology that solves real problems. As a growing systems and software engineering company, we partner across public and private sectors to modernize enterprise systems, strengthen security, and deliver high value solutions. We are scaling with purpose, investing in our people, processes, and platforms as we expand. We work hard, think creatively, and value every perspective as we push boundaries and build systems that matter.

Who you are

Trilogy Innovations is seeking experienced Senior Software Developers to join our team in support of a high-impact federal modernization initiative. This is a fully remote opportunity to work on large-scale, mission-critical IT systems that serve real users at a national level.

You’ll collaborate with a talented, distributed engineering team and play a key role in shaping the future of complex government technology environments. If you enjoy solving challenging technical problems, contributing to long-term transformation efforts, and working in a fast-growing organization, this role offers both stability and meaningful impact.

On-Call Expectations

To support critical system needs, this role participates in a rotating on-call schedule for one week out of every four. During your on-call week, you’ll be part of a responsive support team that helps ensure system reliability and continuity.

• Acknowledge on-call contacts (phone, text, or email) within 15 minutes
• Remain within reasonable access to your secure work laptop while on call
• Log in and begin assessing or troubleshooting requests within 60 minutes of notification

The on-call rotation is structured to provide balance while ensuring our federal partners receive timely, dependable support when it matters most.

What you will do:

• Develop, create, and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs.
• Migrate and modernize all current-system functionality from legacy mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices operating within AWS GovCloud.
• Participate in the operation and support of an enterprise-scale production system, including identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving system issues in collaboration with the ART.
• Analyze user needs and develop software solutions.
• Analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team.
• Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Migrate and modernize all current-system functionality from legacy mainframe systems into cloud-native microservices operating within AWS GovCloud.

What you bring

We require: 

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 8 years of work experience or associate's degree with a minimum of 12 years of experience.
• Active Tier 3 Secret clearance.
• Experience working within an Agile framework, actively contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and Cl/CD Pipeline.
• 5+ years' experience with Java Object-Oriented Programming.
• 5+ years' experience with Kubernetes and containers; automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native architecture within secure, regulated environments.
• Experience designing and supporting event-driven architectures with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with three or more of the following:
  • Apache Kafka
  • Pub/Sub (Publish, subscribe)
  • Streaming
  • Event sources
  • Running GitOps (GitLab, Git, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.) within version control tools.
  • Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) for version control management.
  • Ability for on-call support. These positions can expect to be on the on-call list one (1) week out of every four (4) weeks.

• Proficiency with Java Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience with Cloud-native architecture
  • Event-driven architecture; streaming (preferred).
• Experience with Kubernetes; automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
• Experience running GitOps (GitLab, Bitbucket, ArgoCD, Tecton, etc.)
• Experience with large scale systems

Nice to have:

• Experience with Apache Kafka
  • Pub/Sub (Publish, subscribe)
  • Streaming experience
  • Event sourcing
• Experience with OpenTelemetry
• Experience with AWS 
• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) is a plus.
• Provide technical leadership for the development team, including collaboration with the System Architects to implement architectural decisions that ensure alignment with ART standards, patterns, and security requirements.
• Actively mentor developers, including support for junior and mid-level developers in solutioning and design decisions, promotion ofbes.t practices in code development, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrate a positive, collaborative attitude and a commitment to team success
• Takes pride in delivering high-quality, reliable software that supports a mission-critical system
• Shows ownership and accountability for assigned work and shared team outcomes
• Engages constructively in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions
• Maintains a strong work ethic, professionalism, and respect for teammates, stakeholders, and mission priorities
• Adapts to change and approaches challenges with a solution-oriented mindset 

High-level objects include, but are not limited to the following:

• Migrate all current-system functionality from the mainframes and operate within a cloud-based environment (AWS GovCloud)
• Incorporate modern name search capabilities.
• Expand image handling to accept larger files and support additional file formats, such as PDF.
• Transition investigative search to Elasticsearch, providing a faster response and report creation time for law enforcement.
• Build new services to follow microservices architecture and run within containers using the OpenShift platform.
• Transition database functionality from IBM DB2 to the appropriate cloud data store.
• Update NIEM schemas and IEPDs to allow agencies to use updated functionality and speed up the dot-delimited message format retirement.

Work environment: Remote with occasional travel as required.

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary range: $140,000 - $144,000

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Performance bonus eligibility
• 401k with company match
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Professional development programs
• Employee referral bonus program

Why Trilogy Innovations

At Trilogy Innovations, we believe strong teams build meaningful solutions. We deliver high quality systems and software engineering services across public and private sectors, supporting complex and mission critical environments with integrity, collaboration, and care.

Since 2010, our talented team has partnered with organizations such as the FBI, U.S. Air Force, NASA, Department of Education, Department of Energy, DHS, SOCOM, and leading private sector clients. We are known for combining technical excellence with a thoughtful, people first approach.

At Trilogy, you will work alongside smart, committed professionals in a supportive, learning oriented environment. We value innovation, accountability, and continuous growth, and we encourage our people to bring both expertise and humanity to the work they do.

If you are looking to contribute to impactful work while growing your skills in a collaborative and forward-thinking organization, Trilogy Innovations is a place where you can do just that.

Trilogy Innovations, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.