Senior Software Engineer – Java / Identity & API Platforms
Spectraforce
Austin, Texas
2 hours ago
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Java / Identity & API Platforms
Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid 3-4 days onsite in every week)
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development.
You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs, operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Core Engineering
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs.
• Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms.
• Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows.
• Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability.
Scale, Performance & Reliability
• Build and operate highly resilient systems with:
API latency SLA < 50ms
Throughput > 5,000 TPS
Availability ≥ 99.9%
Error budget < 0.1%
• Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery.
• Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement.
Cloud & Deployment
• Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
AI-Enabled Development
• Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to:
Accelerate feature development
Improve code quality and test coverage
Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting
• Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows.
Collaboration
• Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services.
• 8+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security.
• Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms.
• 2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols:
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
SAML
• Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency .
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.
Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid 3-4 days onsite in every week)
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency, mission-critical platforms. This role focuses on Java-based API development, cloud-native deployments (GCP or equivalent), modern access management protocols, and AI-assisted software development.
You will own services with strict reliability, performance, and availability SLAs, operating at scale in a security-sensitive environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Core Engineering
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services supporting REST-based APIs.
• Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed on GCP and/or other public cloud platforms.
• Develop and secure APIs using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML-based authentication and authorization flows.
• Implement API-first designs with strong contract discipline, backward compatibility, and understandability.
Scale, Performance & Reliability
• Build and operate highly resilient systems with:
API latency SLA < 50ms
Throughput > 5,000 TPS
Availability ≥ 99.9%
Error budget < 0.1%
• Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and fast recovery.
• Apply resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Participate in production support, incident response, RCA, and continuous reliability improvement.
Cloud & Deployment
• Use CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
• Own build → deploy → run lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Work with containerized workloads and modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
AI-Enabled Development
• Actively use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot in agentic mode) to:
Accelerate feature development
Improve code quality and test coverage
Assist with refactoring, documentation, and troubleshooting
• Champion responsible and effective AI usage as part of daily engineering workflows.
Collaboration
• Partner with platform, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.
Required Qualifications
• 8+ years Strong Java expertise with experience building production-grade services.
• 8+ years Hands-on API development experience, including RESTful services and API security.
• Cloud deployment experience on GCP and/or equivalent cloud platforms.
• 2+ Solid experience with Access Management protocols:
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect (OIDC)
SAML
• Proven experience building and operating high-criticality systems with strict SLAs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and performance optimization and resiliency .
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and production troubleshooting.
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 60.00/hr.