Senior Java Software Engineer

Location:
Torrence, CA ( Hybrid- 4 days onsite and 1 day remote)-

Rate: $65/hr on W2

Key Responsibilities:

• 5-8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and related open-source frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS, utilizing services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, Event Bridge, Amazon MQ, MSK (Kafka), Cloud Watch, and IAM.
• Proficient in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and serverless application development, with a strong understanding of distributed systems design principles.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and/or Red Hat Open Shift.
• Strong understanding of Java fundamentals, JVM internals, concurrency, multithreading, performance optimization, and functional programming concepts (Lambda Expressions, Streams API, Completable Future, etc.).
• Experience with relational and No
  
  SQL databases, including Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and related data modeling and performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices using tools such as Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, AWS Code Pipeline, Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of cloud security and application security best practices, including IAM, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, and secure API design.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills in large-scale production environments.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, participating in architecture discussions, code reviews, technical design, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (Git Hub Copilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, or similar) to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.