Back End Software Engineer

Position Description

CGI is seeking to hire a highly technical Back End Software Engineer to modernize a legacy application, design clean and scalable APIs, and lead critical data migration efforts. You'll work across service layers, integration points, and data pipelines to build a reliable, extensible foundation for future capabilities.

This role is ideal for engineers who understand Spring Boot at a framework level, design APIs with long term maintainability in mind, and can execute complex data migration patterns with precision.

This is a Full-Time, On-Site employment opportunity located in Smithfield, RI.

Your future duties and responsibilities

API Design & Service Layer Engineering

• Design RESTful APIs with clear resource modeling, versioning strategy, and predictable error handling.
• Implement Spring Boot controllers, service layers, and repositories using best practice patterns (DTOs, mappers, validation layers).
• Define and enforce API contracts using OpenAPI/Swagger, ensuring consistency across services.
• Build middleware such as interceptors, filters, and exception handlers to standardize cross cutting concerns.
• Optimize API performance through pagination, caching, connection pooling, and async/reactive patterns when appropriate.

Spring Boot Internals & Platform Engineering:

• Configure and tune Spring Boot internals including:
• Auto configuration
• Dependency injection scopes
• Actuator endpoints
• Custom starters
• Application context lifecycle
• Implement Spring Batch jobs for large scale data processing, chunking, retry logic, and fault tolerant workflows.
• Build resilient integrations using Spring's WebClient, RestTemplate (legacy), and messaging templates.
• Apply advanced Spring concepts such as conditional beans, profiles, configuration properties, and environment driven runtime behavior.
• Ensure observability through structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics instrumentation.

Data Migration & ETL Patterns

• Design and execute data migration strategies including bulk loads, incremental syncs, and schema evolution.
• Build ETL pipelines using Spring Batch, SQL scripts, or external ETL tools to ensure data continuity and integrity.
• Perform data profiling, mapping, transformation, and validation to support migration accuracy.
• Optimize relational database interactions through indexing strategies, query tuning, and connection management.
• Collaborate with DBAs and data engineers to ensure safe migration execution under production constraints.

Modernization & Platform Evolution

• Refactor legacy services into modular, maintainable components aligned with modern architectural standards.
• Introduce automation into CI/CD pipelines for build validation, regression detection, and deployment consistency.
• Contribute to the design of a new, extensible platform that supports future domain capabilities.
• Deliver reliably under aggressive timelines while maintaining engineering quality.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• 6 9 years of Java (Spring Boot / Spring Batch)
• 3+ years working with relational databases (schema design, stored procedures, performance tuning)
• 2+ years working with ETL tools or performing data migrations
• Strong understanding of:
• REST API design principles
• Spring Boot internals and configuration
• Spring Batch job orchestration
• SQL optimization and understanding of data design and modeling
• Experience with Dev Assist tools (automation helpers, diagramming, code generation).
• Experience with SQL Server is a plus.
• Experience with test automation tooling (JUnit, Mockito, Test-Containers) is a plus.
• Experience with AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway) is a plus.
• High ownership mindset — drives work from design through delivery.
• Comfortable working across multiple concurrent business capabilities.

Education Required: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

Who You Are:

You're a back-end engineer who thinks in service boundaries, data flows, and long-term maintainability. You understand how APIs evolve, how data moves, and how Spring Boot behaves under the hood. You thrive in modernization efforts, communicate clearly, and deliver reliably — even under tight timelines.

Other Information:

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $77,800.00 $172,400.00.

CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive insurance options
• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
• Wellness and Well being programs

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.

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CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.