Hybrid for Senior Java Developer Insurance Client

Position: Hybrid Job opening for Senior Java Developer with our Insurance Client!!
Job Title:
Senior Java Developer – Engineering Efficiency & AI Champion/ Staff Software Engineer 5

Location:

Charlotte, NC (4 days a week)
Duration: 12+ months with possible extension
Pay range: $73-78/hr on w2

Description:
Senior-level Java engineer dedicated to improving engineering efficiency across multiple application teams. Dev Ops role, role focuses on increasing developer productivity, code quality, CI/CD maturity, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI-assisted development tools. The consultant will rotate across teams, assess codebases and workflows, and deliver production-ready pull requests that automate processes, reduce technical debt, optimize pipelines, and standardize best practices.

Environment includes Java/Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS ECS, Postgre

SQL databases, Angular frontend, Docker-based containerization, and modern CI/CD tooling.

Must haves:

• 10+ years of hands-on Java development (Java 17+) with deep expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and REST API design

• Strong Postgre

SQL (or other relational/non-relational DB) experience including query optimization, indexing, and schema design

• Solid AWS experience: ECS (Fargate/EC2), ECR, Cloud Watch, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC

• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline design and optimization (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline, or similar)

• Docker and container orchestration experience on AWS ECS

• Experience improving build times, automated testing, deployment reliability, and rollback strategies

• Strong Git workflow expertise (branching strategies, PR best practices, code reviews, conflict resolution)

• Experience integrating or leveraging AI coding tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, LLM APIs) into development workflows

• Background in developer experience (DX) or platform engineering focused on internal tooling

• Experience building AI-powered utilities (code review bots, test generators, documentation generators, PR summarizers)

• Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, Cloud Formation)

• Observability tools experience (Datadog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana)

• Knowledge of OWASP security best practices and automated security scanning tools

• Contributions to open-source or internal developer tooling initiatives