Senior Software Engineer / Java & Python - W2 - Contract

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer / Java & Python

Job Type: Contract

Location: Sunrise, FL

Contract description:

• Agile Delivery & Scrum Ceremony Participation
  Ability to actively contribute in scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinements, reviews, retrospectives), ensuring alignment on scope, priorities, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
• Stakeholder Management & Executive Communication
  Strong capability to provide clear, concise, and regular updates to stakeholders (business + tech), translating technical progress into business impact, risks, and next steps.
• Release Management & Production Support
  Hands-on experience managing production releases, supporting deployments, handling incidents, performing root cause analysis (RCA), and coordinating remediation while minimizing downtime and risk.
• Requirements Leadership, Estimation & Sizing
  Ability to lead requirements gathering discussions with business stakeholders and Product Owners, clarify ambiguity, break down work into deliverable components, and provide sizing/effort estimates.
• Architecture & Distributed Systems Problem Solving
  Strong practical skills in designing and troubleshooting distributed systems (microservices, event-driven systems), including debugging complex issues across services, queues/streams, and APIs.

Qualifications:

• 8 12+ Years of Professional Software Engineering Experience
  Demonstrated senior-level experience delivering enterprise-grade applications end-to-end (design, development, testing, deployment, and support) in complex environments.
• Advanced Java Expertise (Java 8+), Spring Boot & Microservices
  Proven hands-on development in modern Java stacks, including Spring Boot, microservice patterns, dependency injection, resiliency, observability, and scalable service design.
• Hands-on Python for Backend, Automation, and/or AI Tooling
  Practical Python experience used for building backend services, automation scripts, orchestration, or integrating AI tooling-beyond basic scripting.
• Production Experience with Apache Kafka & Event-Driven Systems
  Real-world Kafka usage in production environments, including topic design, producer/consumer patterns, error handling, monitoring, and (ideally) exposure to Kafka Streams or Flink.
• AI/ML & LLM Integration Experience (Plus Cloud Exposure/Certs)
  Experience integrating AI/ML tools, LLM APIs, or ML platforms into applications, and familiarity with the ML lifecycle (data preprocessing, feature engineering, evaluation). Cloud exposure and/or certifications (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform) are a strong plus.