3Core Systems, Inc is an SAP and SuccessFactors partner with employees located across the United States. Our organization is dedicated to customer and employee satisfaction. We provide high-quality, cost-efficient, and Competitive Solutions and Resources.
3Core Systems is looking for a Software Engineer 5 (Lead Java Backend Developer) for one of our clients in Chicago, IL (Remote)
Job Title: Software Engineer 5 (Lead Java Backend Developer)
Location: Chicago, IL (Remote, but there will be travel involved when needed Locals preferred)
Duration: 12 months contract.
Position s Contributions to Work Group:
- Provides technical leadership and delivery ownership for a team of software engineers building and operating scalable cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Drives architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and solution design across Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch platforms, CI/CD, observability and AWS infrastructure.
- Collaborates with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions while mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and ensuring successful execution of business objectives.
Typical task breakdown:
- Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications.
- Establishes technical direction and architectural standards.
- Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
- Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
- Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices.
- Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Interaction with team:
- Mentors engineers and develop technical talent.
- Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals.
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor s degree is a must.
- 10+ years experience in this capacity with 5+ years in a lead role.
- Candidates with solid backend development experience and prior exposure to the automotive/automobile industry would be a great fit.
Required Technical Skills:
- Java (latest would be ideal)
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- REST APIs
- AWS (ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager)
- OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- Docker
- CI/CD
- GitHub
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Architecture
- Observability
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- SQL/NoSQL databases
- Event-Driven Architecture
- API Integration
- Performance Optimization, and AI-assisted Development Tools.
Soft Skills:
Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and coaching, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, ownership, conflict resolution, adaptability, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams while driving successful delivery of complex cloud-native solutions.
Regards,
Recruiting Team
3Core Systems Inc
9101 Burnet Road, Suite 207, Austin, TX 78758
3Core Systems, Inc
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