
API Software Developer
CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Lafayette, LA · HybridJob$65–161K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Java API Developer designs and develops APIs that connect products with internal systems, with a focus on reliability, security, and performance. The role is based in CGI’s Lafayette office, with a hybrid working model acceptable, and requires U.S. citizenship due to the government contract. The developer works with Java, Spring, databases, and JUnit while collaborating with frontend, DevOps, and project teams.
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API Software Developer
Position Description
As our Java API Developer, you'll design and develop APIs that enable our products to communicate effortlessly with internal systems, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. Your work will directly influence how quickly and effectively our customers can leverage our platform's capabilities.
This position is located in our Lafayette, LA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Due to the nature of the government contract, US citizenship is required.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs using Java and the Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security).
Optimize API performance through efficient data handling, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing.
Collaborate closely with frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and project managers to deliver features end to end.
Integrate APIs with databases (Oracle now and either PostgreSQL or MySQL in the future).
Write unit and integration tests using JUnit to ensure code quality.
Participate in code reviews, share best
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Experience coding Java based SQL driven applications.
Java RESTful API experience
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
Hibernate development.
Spring Framework experience to include Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Security.
AI coding with GitHub CoPilot.
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 $65,300.00 $160,700.00.
CGI Federal'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
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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.
CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at [email protected] . You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.
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All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.
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.
How this job compares
Set against the 41,042 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$65–161K/yr
- Louisiana median$108–210K/yr254 salary ranges
- US median$135–217K/yr32,734 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $113K, is 31% below the Louisiana median midpoint ($164K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Louisiana.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 289 open Software Engineer jobs in Louisiana and 41,042 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Louisiana
- Oracle91 open
- CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc. (this employer)31 open
- Meta18 open
- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,355 postings).
- Education
- 14,290 of the 41,042 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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