Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Skills
API
Lead Java
Job Details
Job Title : Lead Java API Developer
Location : Cincinnati, OH 45227 (Onsite)
Duration : 12 Months
Key Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle application development, including design, coding, debugging, and deployment.
- Perform software, code, requirements, and risk analysis, ensuring reliability and scalability.
- Apply Object-Oriented Design and Analysis (OOA/OOD) for building distributed and real-time processing systems.
- Design and develop APIs, messaging, and event-driven solutions (MQ, Kafka, etc.).
- Implement availability engineering practices, including SLAs, failover, and graceful degradation.
- Enhance system observability using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Splunk.
- Drive performance tuning, optimization, automation, and usability improvements.
- Support and maintain existing software, ensuring standards compliance.
- Evaluate new technologies and recommend solutions for implementation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile/iterative environments.
Required Skills
- Core Expertise: Java (concurrency, memory management, performance tuning).
- System Design: Distributed systems, real-time processing, API design.
- Messaging/Eventing: MQ, Kafka, or similar platforms.
- Availability Engineering: SLAs, failover strategies, system degradation handling.
- Observability Tools: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk.
- Strong background in software testing, QA, and integration.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8 20 years of professional software engineering experience.
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