Services Engineer Lead

Kforce has a client seeking a Services Engineer Lead in Miami, FL (Florida). Responsibilities: * Design, develop, and maintain Spring Boot microservices (both Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux/reactive) * Build and extend federated GraphQL subgraphs using Spring GraphQL * Develop composite services that orchestrate calls across cart, pricing, inventory, eligibility, and order domains * Implement resilient HTTP integrations using WebClient and RestTemplate with Resilience4j circuit breakers * Build Kafka consumers/producers with schema registry and Avro serialization Configure and optimize Redis caching with Sentinel replication * Implement OAuth2 client credential flows for upstream API integration * Write comprehensive tests using JUnit 5, Mockito, WireMock, Rest Assured, and Reactor Test * Maintain code quality with Checkstyle, PMD, SpotBugs, and JaCoCo coverage thresholds * Leverage AI-powered development tools as part of daily workflow* 5+ years of hands-on Java development experience (Java 17+) * To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed * Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus Strong hands-on experience with: * Spring Boot 3.x * Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux (Project Reactor, reactive streams) * GraphQL - Spring GraphQL, federated subgraph development, schema-first design * Maven build system * Kafka - producers/consumers, Avro serialization, schema registry * Redis - caching strategies, Spring Data Redis, Sentinel * Resilience4j - circuit breakers, time limiters, retry patterns * WebClient and RestTemplate for downstream service calls * OAuth2 client credential flows * Kubernetes - pods, services, ConfigMaps, deployments * Docker - containerized Java applications * AWS - ElastiCache, cloud-native deployment patterns * MapStruct for DTO mapping, Lombok * JUnit 5, Mockito, WireMock, Rest Assured * Code quality: Checkstyle, PMD, SpotBugs, JaCoCo (80%+ coverage targets) * Git, GitHub Actions CI/CD * Active usage of AI development tools in daily workflow