Sr Java Engineer (ONLY W2) - LOCAL TO BAY AREA

Project Description

Sr. Java Engineer for the Application Platform team developing core enterprise microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Databases like Oracle, Cassandra and messaging systems like Kafka are used for developing these microservices.

Duties/Day to Day Overview

Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Specific Responsibilities

Gathers and verifies technical requirements

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

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

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on Java/Spring Boot backend services.

Strong core Java coding skills & ability to articulate coding problem-solving approach

Expert in multithreading, memory management, collections, Microservices design, production-level troubleshooting & database fundamentals.

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) are strongly preferred, candidates with no SQL experience with other databases will still be considered

Production experience with Kafka (consumer groups, partitioning, offset management, schema evolution) is strongly preferred, candidates with similar system experience will still be considered

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.

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