Senior Java Software Engineer

This is a hybrid role, spending 2-3 days onsite with your team

One of our best clients, a true leader in their field, with roots going back over 80 years, is looking to hire a Senior Backend Java Engineer to join a highly scaled engineering organization building mission-critical distributed systems used across a national operational platform.

This is an opportunity to work on complex backend architecture challenges involving microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, observability, resiliency, and cloud-native engineering practices.

If you enjoy solving difficult distributed systems problems and building software that operates at real scale, this role offers both technical depth and long‑term impact.

• Microservices & distributed systems
• Kafka / event-driven architecture
• REST APIs / OpenAPI
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Observability & monitoring tooling
• SQL & No
  
  SQL databases

• Designing and developing backend Java microservices in a distributed architecture
• Building scalable, resilient, API‑first systems with strong performance and reliability standards
• Solving complex engineering challenges involving:
• Eventual consistency
• Idempotency
• Distributed transactions
• Fault tolerance
• Retry and recovery patterns
• Writing clean, maintainable, production‑quality code with strong automated testing practices
• Building observability directly into applications:
• Metrics
• Alerting
• Distributed tracing
• Partnering with Platform/SRE teams to improve reliability and operational maturity
• Participating in architecture and technical design discussions across large‑scale systems
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to strong engineering standards and code quality

• 8–10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep understanding of the Spring ecosystem
• Experience building microservices in production environments
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts and patterns
• Experience with messaging/event‑streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience designing scalable APIs and backend platforms
• Solid understanding of:
• Experience with containerized/cloud-native deployments
• Strong testing mindset across unit, integration, and contract testing
• Experience working in modern Dev Ops‑enabled engineering environments

• Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred)
• Experience supporting high‑throughput or mission‑critical systems
• Exposure to large‑scale operational or transactional platforms

• Complex backend engineering problems at scale
• Strong engineering culture focused on code quality and architecture
• Modern cloud‑native technology stack
• Large‑scale systems with real‑world impact
• Highly collaborative engineering environment
• Opportunity to influence architecture and technical direction

If you are a senior backend engineer looking for a role centered around scalable Java microservices, distributed systems, and modern engineering practices, we’d love to connect. Email me at