Software Engineer (Development Specialist) #11001

ECCO Select is seeking a Software Engineer (Development Specialist) for a 21-week contract role focused on upgrading legacy Java frameworks and addressing security vulnerabilities. The engineer will work on modernizing dependencies, migrating services, and ensuring documentation for production operations.

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade Spring and Struts frameworks and related libraries to supported, secure versions
• Remediate CVE findings and security vulnerabilities across multiple repositories through dependency updates, refactoring, and secure coding
• Implement and support vendorload service rewrite using REST/JSON APIs
• Migrate SOAP-based XML services to REST endpoints and update downstream integrations as needed
• Fix defects discovered during upgrades and improve performance and maintainability where feasible
• Write and maintain technical documentation for upgraded components, build processes, and operational runbooks
• Collaborate with DevSecOps and QA to support secure builds, deployments, and regression validation

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• 3+ years of Java development experience
• Hands-on experience with Spring and Struts in legacy enterprise codebases
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases (Oracle required)
• Experience remediating vulnerability findings (CVEs) and upgrading third-party dependencies
• Experience building or integrating REST APIs
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving remediation effort with strong attention to detail and documentation
• Ability to obtain and maintain a SAAR
• Background check required
• PostgreSQL preferred
• Active Secret clearance preferred; must be able to obtain a Secret clearance
• familiarity with migration patterns (SOAP to REST) preferred