Java Developer with Ex-State Exp-Albany, NY(Onsite/W2)
1. Level III- More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role as a Developer
2.7+ years of professional Java development experience with strong proficiency in Java 21 (records, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads). One to three years of experience designing and building microservices architectures — service decomposition, API gateway patterns,service discovery, and distributed configuration; deploying and operating microservices on AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS,RDS, S3, SQS, Lambda).
3.Seven years of experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security,Spring Cloud); Spring Batch for large-scale batch processing; solid understanding of Hibernate/JPA for ORM and database interaction;experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases; building and consuming RESTful APIs with proper versioning and contract-first design;
experience with inter-service communication patterns (REST,messaging queues, event-driven).
Desirable Qualifications: Meets (Yes/No) If Meets identify Where, When and HOW, as applicable
1. Experience with government or public sector projects
2. Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) for microservices deployment pipelines; distributed system concerns: fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.
3. Hands-on experience with microservices patterns such as saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and API
composition; service mesh technologies and API gateway solutions (AWS API Gateway, Spring
Cloud Gateway)
4. Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows; strong understanding of software design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean code practices
5. Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS) for microservices deployment
6. Knowledge of message-driven architecture (SQS, SNS, Kafka) for asynchronous inter-service communication; database-per-service patterns and database migration tools (Flyway, Liquibase etc)
7. Experience with centralized logging and distributed tracing across microservices (CloudWatch, Splunk,Datadog, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry)
8. Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation); OAuth2/OpenID Connect for securing microservices