Java Engineer

Job Title : Java Engineer

Location : San Jose, CA - Onsite Position

Long term Contract - Mon-Thurs onsite

Roles & Responsibilities

uthors 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

ccountable 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

ble 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

ctively shares knowledge within domain

ble to share knowledge outside domain

Mentors co-workers within area of expertise, improves other's productivity

Provides guidance for the work performed by contractors

ssesses the quality of work and effectiveness of contract resources

Participates in development of contractor agreements, including deliverables and SLAs

Must have

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/GitHub Actions) and Git workflows.

Proficiency in observability (e.g., logs/metrics/traces) and performance optimization for JVM-based services.

bility to lead technical initiatives, review designs, and drive outcomes in a fast-paced environment.