Java Backend Developer

Sr. Backend Developer – Java/Spring Boot, Angular, Cloud
Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities. This role combines strong backend engineering with hands-on involvement in release readiness, production deployment, monitoring, and cross-team coordination. You will contribute to high-impact technical decisions, maintain engineering excellence, and help drive smooth, reliable release cycles.

What You Will Do

• Partner with technical leaders to contribute to architecture, design frameworks, and roadmap planning.

• Provide engineering guidance during early-stage designs and ensure strong technical execution.

• Build reliable, scalable distributed systems and backend services.

• Lead key technical decisions for high-risk or high-impact initiatives.

• Drive features from prototype to production with end-to-end ownership.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, digital, and engineering teams.

• Work effectively in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

• Take ownership in a remote/hybrid setup and ensure strong communication across teams.

• Identify customer pain points and propose self service automation solutions.

• Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and a positive, collaborative team culture.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.

• Experience working with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.

• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns.

• 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.

• Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

• Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness.

• Experience supporting production deployments and performing post deployment validation.

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.

• High level of ownership and ability to operate with minimal guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA).

• Background in roles combining development + release/operations.

• Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools.

• Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems.

• Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field – or equivalent experience.

Location

• Texas, Chicago, NY - Photon Offices