Java Engineer - OH

**Job#: 3028674**

**Job Description:**

**Client:** *Financial Services*

**Team:** *TBA*

**Job Title:** **Specialty Software Engineer 4 -- Java (Contingent)**

**Location:** **Columbus, OH -- (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)**

**Contract Length:** **18 months (extension or conversion possible)**

**Pay Rate:** **$80 - $87**

**Top Requirements**

1. **6+ years Java development experience.**

2. **6+ years Spring Boot experience.**

3. **3+ years Cloud experience** (Azure preferred, but *any* cloud acceptable).

4. Must complete a **HackerRank or Glider assessment**.

5. Strong hands-on engineering skills --- must be able to speak to work performed and pass technical screening.

**Plusses**

- Kafka

- JMS / Messaging

- Kubernetes

- Ability to convert **without sponsorship**

- Experience with large-scale modernization programs

- Experience supporting highly regulated, high-volume processing systems

**Job Summary**

This senior Specialty Software Engineer role will support the **Check Modernization program**, which processes **5 million+ checks nightly for billions of dollars in transaction value**. The engineer will work as a full member of an Agile scrum team, contributing hands-on to the application modernization effort as the organization transitions from **mainframe to cloud**.

The role requires strong Java and Spring Boot expertise, distributed systems experience, event-driven architecture familiarity, and comfort working in a modernization program with high reliability and throughput requirements.

As part of a large multi-year consolidation effort (27 applications reducing to 4), the engineer will focus primarily on one application and one scrum team dedicated **100% to modernization work**.

**Day-to-Day Responsibilities**

- Develop and enhance **Spring Boot Java microservices** for large-scale modernization.

- Build integrations using **Kafka, JMS, REST APIs**, and cloud-based messaging patterns.

- Support containerized workloads (Kubernetes preferred).

- Collaborate with developers in Columbus and India across 3 scrum teams.

- Participate in story grooming, sprint planning, development, and release activities.

- Troubleshoot production-like issues and help prepare for a future weekend support rotation.

- Work across mainframe-to-cloud transition workflows and modernization pipelines.

- Contribute to cloud deployment design and best practices.

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