Design and build backend services while supporting frontend development when necessary.
Evolve the core API layer and downstream services, delivering secure, performant REST APIs.
Lead technical design reviews and improve service reliability.
Collaborate across the stack to ship features end-to-end.
Step into frontend codebases (Angular/React) to unblock delivery and ensure a cohesive user experience.

Requirements

5+ years of software development experience building Java services in production.
Expertise with Spring Boot and REST API design; comfortable with contract-first development and layered service architectures.
Experience building and consuming service/domain contracts and integrating external/partner APIs.
Proficient with data modeling and access patterns; capable of optimizing queries, caching, and serialization for high-performance applications.
Proficient in automated testing: unit, integration, component, contract, and performance testing.
Strong focus on observability, performance profiling, and resilience (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency).
Strong verbal and written communication skills; able to explain design tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Codex CLI) to improve engineering productivity and code quality.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootREST API designcontract-first developmentdata modelingquery optimizationcachingserializationautomated testingperformance testing

Soft Skills

communication skillscollaborationtechnical design reviewsproblem-solvingleadership