Senior Java Backend Engineer (AWS Microservices)

Our client is a 3rd Generation Management Consulting Firm. They are now looking to add to their team and are looking to hire a " Senior Java Backend Engineer (AWS Microservices). This role will be based out of New York, NY, and is 100% Remote.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join a platform engineering team building a next-generation self-service platform for application developers. The platform is already in production beta with multiple microservices and requires feature enhancements, scalability improvements, security hardening, and performance optimization.

This role is ideal for someone with strong experience designing and developing cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of Java backend development
• Strong experience with Java 11/17+
• Expertise in Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (especially ECS)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• CI/CD pipeline development using Jenkins
• Git version control (Fork, Pull Request, Code Review workflow)
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and OWASP Top 10
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and structured logging

Preferred Qualifications

• Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Geneos
• Distributed tracing (Jaeger or Zipkin)
• Kafka
• IBM MQ
• CockroachDB

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot
• Develop secure, high-performance REST APIs
• Deploy applications on AWS ECS and Kubernetes
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation
• Collaborate with platform engineers to improve reliability, scalability, and automation
• Integrate monitoring, logging, and application performance tools
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance
• Follow secure coding standards and best engineering practices

Technologies

Java | Spring Boot | REST APIs | Microservices | AWS | ECS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CloudFormation | Jenkins | Git | Aurora PostgreSQL | Dynatrace | Splunk | OWASP | Docker | CI/CD