Java Full Stack Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Java Full Stack Engineer

• Focus: New development and ongoing maintenance of a critical external-facing training application

• Scope: Frontend UI, backend services, automated testing, and AWS infrastructure

Description

Hands-on Full Stack Engineer role supporting a team of experienced full stack engineers. Work across frontend UI, backend Java services, test automation, and AWS cloud infrastructure for a training application used by lenders and trainers in the capital markets space. Emphasis is on quality, scalability, and production stability.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and maintain an external-facing training web application

• Implement frontend/UI components for training workflows

• Build and maintain backend Java services for user workflows, data processing, and integrations

• Participate in GitHub-based workflows (branching, pull requests, code review)

• Use GitHub Copilot/GHCP to improve productivity and code quality (strong plus)

• Validate user stories end to end as an engineer of test

• Build and maintain automated tests across UI and backend layers

• Ensure quality coverage for new development, enhancements, and production fixes

• Collaborate with product and engineering partners to ensure requirements are fully tested and delivered

Requirements

• Strong Java fundamentals (OOPs, Collections, Streams, exception handling) and JVM concepts

• Experience with JDK 8/17/21 features

• Advanced Java including design patterns, multithreading, and functional/reactive programming

• Spring Boot experience: dependency injection, REST APIs, Spring Security (JWT), JPA/Hibernate, transaction management, Actuator, configuration management, input validation, global exception handling, annotations

• Backend integration experience using RestTemplate and/or WebClient

• Microservices architecture experience: service decomposition, API design, resiliency patterns (e.g., circuit breaker), distributed transaction considerations, scalability, observability

• Frontend experience with Angular plus RxJS, state management, routing, and UI performance optimization

• AWS cloud experience: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, IAM, ECS/AKS (container platforms), auto scaling, CloudWatch, and networking concepts

• AWS-native architecture experience: serverless design, event-driven patterns, high availability, scalability, cost optimization, security best practices

• Messaging experience with Kafka (producers/consumers, topic design, consumer groups, error handling, tuning)

• Containerization/orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• CI/CD and DevOps experience with Git plus GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins/Azure DevOps

• API standards and integration experience including OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication/authorization, versioning, and contract-first design

Benefits

• Hands-on development role spanning frontend, backend, testing, and cloud infrastructure

• Opportunity to work with a team of 8+ experienced full stack engineers on a production-critical application