Role Summary
We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Java Developer with 5+ years of experience to lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of mission‑critical systems. You will own architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to build scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of progressive experience building enterprise systems, with 7+ years in Java and Spring at scale.
Proven delivery of cloud-native, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Strong expertise in:
Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
REST/GraphQL APIs, gRPC (nice-to-have)
Kafka (or Pulsar), Kubernetes, Docker
RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB)
Caching (Redis), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), IaC (Terraform/ARM)
Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK), feature flags/progressive delivery
Solid grasp of concurrency, performance tuning, resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), and fault-tolerance.
Demonstrated leadership of architectural forums, design reviews, and mentorship.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Nice-to-Have:
Domain knowledge: Payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecom.
Security: Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, mTLS.
Data: CDC (Debezium), schema registry, exactly-once semantics, streaming ETL.
Platform: Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways (Kong/Apigee), Serverless (Lambda/Functions).
Modern patterns: CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, hexagonal architecture.
Education:
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group:
Technology
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Job Family:
Applications Development
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Time Type:
Full time
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$94,300.00 - $141,500.00
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Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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