Senior Java Full Stack Developer. Columbus LilyLifestyle

Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Trident Consulting is seeking a Senior Java Full Stack Developer for one of our clients in Columbus, OH & Plano, TX. A global leader in business and technology services.

Job Title:

Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Location:

Columbus, OH & Plano, TX

Job Type: Contract

Pay Rate: $60

Required:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security; strong understanding of JVM internals and performance tuning.
• Hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer group management, schema registry, and stream processing (Kafka Streams or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of microservices patterns: service decomposition, API gateway, circuit breaking, event sourcing, and CQRS.
• Strong AWS skills across compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda), networking (VPC, ALB, API Gateway), storage (RDS, Dynamo
  
  DB, S3), messaging (SNS/SQS, Event Bridge), and security (IAM, KMS, WAF).
• Proficient with CI/CD tooling (Git Hub Actions or Jenkins), containerisation (Docker), and IaC (Terraform or Cloud Formation).
• Experience with SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL/Aurora/MySQL) and No
  
  SQL (Dynamo
  
  DB/Document
  
  DB); practical Redis caching strategies.
• Front-end capability in React + Type Script, including component architecture, routing, and state management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers.

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• Java 17 and above
• Apache Kafka
• Microservices
• Spring Boot + AWS
• Core Java