Job Role: Senior Java Full Stack Developer
Duration: 10 Months
Location: New York, NY (Onsite- all 5 days)
 
Job Description/ Responsibilities

• We are looking for a Senior Java Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale mission-critical platforms for a high-growth enterprise environment. You will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native microservices on AWS, architect event-driven pipelines with Apache Kafka, and deliver robust Spring Boot APIs consumed by modern React front ends. This is a hands-on engineering role with meaningful influence on architecture, standards, and team capability.

 
Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security; strong understanding of JVM internals and performance tuning.
• Hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer group management, schema registry, and stream processing (Kafka Streams or equivalent).
• Solid understanding of microservices patterns: service decomposition, API gateway, circuit breaking, event sourcing, and CQRS.
• Strong AWS skills across compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda), networking (VPC, ALB, API Gateway), storage (RDS, DynamoDB, S3), messaging (SNS/SQS, EventBridge), and security (IAM, KMS, WAF).
• Proficient with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or Jenkins), containerisation (Docker), and IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL/Aurora/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/DocumentDB); practical Redis caching strategies.
• Front-end capability in React + TypeScript, including component architecture, routing, and state management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers.

 
Core Technology Stack:

• Backend: Java 17, Spring Boot 3, Spring Cloud, Spring WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate, Resilience4j
• Messaging: Apache Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Avro, Schema Registry
• APIs: REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI 3, Pact, WireMock
• Data: PostgreSQL / Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis / ElastiCache, S3, OpenSearch
• Frontend: React 18, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, React Query, Vite, Jest, Playwright
• AWS: ECS / EKS / Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, WAF
• DevOps & IaC: Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

 
Years of Experience:

• 10+Years of Experience

 
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• Java 17 and above,
• Microservices, SpringBoot + AWS
• Core Java

  
 
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: $ 50.00/daily.