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# Software Developer III

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Greenwood Village, CO, United States
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Query Performance, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Performance Management, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Restful APIs, Software Version Control, Service Stack
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/66ab4649-e788-4c4f-869a-3d43e50d197e

## About the Role

Java:

 * Deep proficiency in Java
 * Strong software development fundamentals
 * Ability and willingness to learn additional languages and technologies

API & System Design:

 * RESTful web services
 * API development
 * Ability to design a component or service
 * System/application design experience

Databases Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, particularly:

 * MySQL
 * MongoDB
 * PostgreSQL
 * Schema/data modeling
 * Query performance

Messaging:

 * Kafka or comparable messaging/event-streaming experience

Testing & Troubleshooting:

 * Strong testing discipline
 * Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills
 * Production debugging
 * Experience working with logs, metrics and traces

DevOps/Infrastructure:

 * CI/CD
 * Version-control workflows
 * Containers
 * Kubernetes
 * Basic cloud/infrastructure familiarity

Engineering Quality:

 * Security awareness
 * Application performance awareness
 * Strong code-review practices

Nice to Have:

 * Camunda BPM experience - identified this as a nice-to-have
 * Experience working across multiple technology stacks
 * Experience operating in environments where priorities and technologies evolve

## Description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Software Developer III in Englewood, CO., We are seeking an experienced Software Developer III with a strong foundation in Java and backend/service development. The ideal candidate is more than someone who can simply execute assigned coding tasks. This person should be comfortable taking an ambiguous technical problem, breaking it into manageable pieces, designing an appropriate solution, and driving the work through delivery.

The developer will work collaboratively with other engineers and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and production troubleshooting.

The environment calls for someone who combines strong hands-on software engineering skills with the maturity to make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.

Core Responsibilities:

 * Design, develop, configure, test, debug and document applications and system components
 * Participate in technical and API design, including RESTful services
 * Translate functional requirements and analysis into sound technical solutions
 * Participate actively in architecture, design and code reviews
 * Develop and maintain operational and system-level documentation
 * Build and work with database schemas, queries and data models
 * Develop against messaging/event-driven systems such as Kafka
 * Write well-tested, maintainable code and take ownership of overall code quality
 * Troubleshoot application and production issues using logs, metrics and traces
 * Work within modern CI/CD and source-control workflows
 * Provide substantive feedback during peer code reviews and help improve overall engineering quality
 * Collaborate effectively with developers and other stakeholders