Specialist – Java
Location: Texas, North Carolina, or Missouri – Onsite
Job Type: Long-Term Contract
Top Skills:
Java 17 | Spring Boot | AWS | Microservices | Kafka | SQS | EventBridge | PostgreSQL | Terraform
Note: This role is focused on hands-on development and technical leadership, rather than enterprise architecture.
Job Description
We are seeking a Specialist – Java/Spring Boot Lead with strong hands-on coding experience to lead the design and development of event-driven transactional microservices on AWS.
This is a hands-on Lead role, not an Architect position. The ideal candidate will establish development frameworks, create project scaffolding, and provide a strong technical foundation for development teams.
The systems will process millions of transactional decisions per day and require strong experience building scalable, reliable, and high-concurrency applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of event-driven transactional microservices.
- Build development frameworks and project scaffolding for engineering teams.
- Develop scalable applications using Java 17 and Spring Boot.
- Design and implement AWS-based solutions using ECS, Aurora PostgreSQL, SQS FIFO, EventBridge, and MSK.
- Develop high-volume transactional systems with concurrency controls.
- Collaborate with developers to establish coding standards and best practices.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and production issues.
Required Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on Java/Spring Boot development experience.
- Strong experience with Java 17 and Spring Boot.
- Hands-on AWS experience with ECS, Aurora, SQS, and EventBridge.
- Strong experience building transactional systems and microservices.
- Experience with Kafka/MSK.
- Experience with concurrency controls such as advisory locks and optimistic versioning.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Strong technical leadership and hands-on coding skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Drools Rules Engine.
- State machine design patterns.
- Parallel-run validation.
- Resilience4j.
- Legacy-to-cloud migration experience.
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.