Senior Java or Oracle APEX Developer

About Precision Federal

Precision Federal is a Christian-owned small business building AI and software systems for federal agencies through the SBIR program. The founder is a Christian, and the company is run on Christian principles: every number we publish is real, every claim we make is verifiable, and the work is done with excellence as service to God. Every proposal we submit is backed by working prototypes built before we ask for a dollar.

How this role works

1. You join the bench. We name you (with a short bio) on proposals that match this role, always asking you first. Consent costs you nothing and commits you to nothing until an award funds.
2. A contract is awarded. Federal SBIR awards fund the team named in the proposal. Your engagement begins, at an hourly rate agreed before you were ever named.
3. You work remote, paid from the contract. ~40–80 hrs per funded award — and if no award ever funds, you owe nothing and lose nothing.

What you'll do

• Build and extend REST endpoints in an existing Government Java service over an Oracle database
• Implement policy-based access control — an authorization proxy and Open Policy Agent in front of a data API
• Write JUnit 5 and REST Assured integration tests that run against Oracle, not against a mock
• Work in the customer’s GitHub — issues, pull requests, and code review as the unit of delivery
• Join a one-hour development meeting every two weeks with Government engineers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years building production software in Java — or equivalent senior Oracle APEX development
• REST API work against an Oracle database at production scale
• Automated testing you wrote yourself: JUnit or equivalent, including integration tests against a real database
• Git and pull-request workflow as your normal way of shipping
• U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (U.S. person)
• Willing to be named on a federal proposal and to sign a short letter of commitment

Preferred qualifications

• Oracle APEX, PL/SQL, or Oracle Virtual Private Database / session context
• Open Policy Agent and Rego
• Javalin, Spring Boot, or a comparable JVM web framework
• AWS, containers, or infrastructure-as-code
• Prior federal or DoD software delivery

Compensation & structure

1099 consulting engagement. $70–$95 per hour, confirmed in writing before you are named on any proposal. This seat is scoped at roughly 1,290 hours across a 360-day period of performance on an active federal solicitation, fully remote. Work and pay begin only if the contract is awarded — no award, no hours, no obligation.

Apply — Senior Java or Oracle APEX Developer

Every application is read personally by the founder. We respond to every serious one.

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Five questions

These are the substance of the application. Answer from your own experience — a few sentences each is plenty, and “this never came up” is a real answer we want.

1. In your experience, how often does access control or permissions work get bolted on to an existing data API late — and roughly what does that cost when it happens, in hours, people, or rework? *

2. What does your team use today to manage authorization and permissions for a database-backed API, and where does it fall short? *

3. When a permissions or access-control change is needed on a system you support, which office or role actually decides and approves it? *

4. Do you have any role in deciding what tools, frameworks, or libraries your organization adopts — approving, evaluating, or recommending? *

5. Do you own, or hold signing authority for, a company or consultancy of your own? *

May we credit you by name and title in our federal proposals? * Please choose… Yes No

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