[Remote] Senior Java Backend Engineer (AWS Microservices)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. High Bridge Consulting LLC is a 3rd Generation Management Consulting Firm seeking a Senior Java Backend Engineer to join their platform engineering team. The role involves building a next-generation self-service platform for application developers, focusing on enhancing features, scalability, security, and performance of cloud-native microservices.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot
- Develop secure, high-performance REST APIs
- Deploy applications on AWS ECS and Kubernetes
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
- Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation
- Collaborate with platform engineers to improve reliability, scalability, and automation
- Integrate monitoring, logging, and application performance tools
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimize application performance
- Follow secure coding standards and best engineering practices
Skills
- 7+ years of Java backend development
- Strong experience with Java 11/17+
- Expertise in Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture
- Experience designing and developing REST APIs
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (especially ECS)
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
- CI/CD pipeline development using Jenkins
- Git version control (Fork, Pull Request, Code Review workflow)
- Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of secure coding practices and OWASP Top 10
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, and structured logging
- Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Geneos
- Distributed tracing (Jaeger or Zipkin)
- Kafka
- IBM MQ
- CockroachDB
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