Senior Hibernate/JPA ORM Engineer
Industrial Manufacturing
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $136,000 - $173,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudERPHibernateJavaMS SQL ServerMySQLPostgresSQL
About the role
- Design, configure, and maintain Hibernate/JPA persistence layers across multiple environments, including cloud-hosted databases.
- Develop and optimize entity models, relationships, fetch strategies, and schema mappings aligned with application and business requirements.
- Integrate Java persistence with Infor SyteLine V10.x, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and related enterprise systems.
- Establish best practices for ORM usage, including naming standards, caching strategies, and transaction handling.
- Monitor and optimize persistence performance, reducing database load and improving application responsiveness.
- Analyze SQL generated by Hibernate and enhance performance through strategic indexing, batching, lazy/eager loading optimization, and query tuning.
- Identify and resolve N+1 issues, excessive joins, inefficient fetch plans, and transaction bottlenecks.
- Use Hibernate statistics, profiling tools, and database monitoring utilities to drive continuous improvement.
- Design robust transaction management strategies, supporting distributed transactions where required.
- Ensure data consistency and reliability across high-availability architectures.
- Collaborate on application-level backup and recovery strategies related to data access layers.
- Enforce secure coding and ORM best practices to protect sensitive data.
- Ensure adherence to data governance, auditing, and regulatory requirements.
- Work with the security team to identify vulnerabilities within application-layer data access implementations.
- Evaluate and optimize ORM configurations and database interactions to support business growth.
- Participate in planning for infrastructure scaling, including cloud migrations and performance load testing.
- Diagnose and resolve application-level data access issues, including slow queries, deadlocks, locking, concurrency challenges, and transactional anomalies.
- Provide on-call support for critical incidents involving persistence-layer failures or performance degradation.
- Work closely with Java development teams to support deployments, new features, major refactoring efforts, and platform upgrades.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for ORM architecture, configuration standards, optimization techniques, and troubleshooting procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience strongly preferred.
- 5+ years of professional experience working with Hibernate/JPA in enterprise Java applications, including 3+ years in a senior or lead role.
- Expert-level understanding of ORM design, entity modeling, caching, and SQL generation.
- Proven experience optimizing ORM performance, including fetch strategies, batching, indexing, and query tuning.
- Strong familiarity with relational databases (e.g., MySQL Server, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server) and how Java applications interact with them.
- Experience integrating Java applications with enterprise systems, including ERP solutions like Infor SyteLine V10.x and Salesforce Sales Cloud.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with consistent on-time delivery.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and long-term success
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
HibernateJPASQLORM designentity modelingcachingfetch strategiesindexingquery tuningtransaction management
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationanalytical skillscritical-thinkingproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in software engineering