Java Engineer

Job Title :
Java Engineer

Location :
San Jose, CA – Onsite Position

Long term Contract - Mon-Thurs onsite

• Authors and audits technical design for features
• Competent in programming and debugging across multiple modules and dealing with related external dependencies
• Writes high quality code with full test coverage
• Reviews code to ensure it is functionally correct and is of high quality
• Provides story or business requirements breakdown planning and estimation, reviews and evaluates the team's estimates
• Accountable for complex stories or business requirements
• Identifies feature and module dependencies
• Proposes mitigation plans for identified risks and problems
• Suggests process improvements and best practices
• Identifies new areas that could be measured
• Able to identify, evaluate and discuss alternative technologies and techniques
• Justifies decisions and achieves peer consent
• Interacts with team members, other IT teams, business users, individual contributors, managers
• Gathers and verifies technical requirements
• Sphere of influence is small group of peers
• Actively shares knowledge within domain
• Able to share knowledge outside domain
• Mentors co-workers within area of expertise, improves other's productivity
• Provides guidance for the work performed by contractors
• Assesses the quality of work and effectiveness of contract resources
• Participates in development of contractor agreements, including deliverables and SLAs

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on Java/Spring Boot backend services.
• Deep experience designing microservices (service boundaries, API design, idempotency, retries, circuit breaking).
• Hands-on with Oracle (SQL tuning, indexing, stored procedures) and Cassandra (data modeling, consistency levels).
• Production experience with Kafka (consumer groups, partitioning, offset management, schema evolution).
• Strong grasp of testing: unit/integration/contract tests; test data management.
• Solid knowledge of RESTful APIs, pagination, error handling, and versioning.
• Experience with CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins/Git Hub Actions) and Git workflows.
• Proficiency in observability (e.g., logs/metrics/traces) and performance optimization for JVM-based services.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, review designs, and drive outcomes in a fast-paced environment.