Lead Java Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Java Developer
• Locations: Charlotte, NC / Irving, TX (Hybrid; 3 days in office per week)
• Experience: 12+ years

Description

Lead and build enterprise Java solutions with a microservices architecture using Spring and Kafka. Design and develop RESTful APIs, integrate with relational and NoSQL databases, and apply Agile/DevOps practices across the software development lifecycle. Additionally, deliver hands-on GenAI/LLM integration (e.g., RAG, embeddings/vector search, and evaluation) in Java-based backend applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field
• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong hands-on Java experience (Java 8 or higher)
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot and Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security)
• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices-based architectures
• Hands-on Apache Kafka experience: topic and partition design, producer/consumer development, consumer groups and offset management, message ordering and delivery semantics, schema management and serialization, retry/dead-letter/error handling, Kafka monitoring and performance tuning
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, API design, integration patterns, and distributed systems
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server)
• Experience with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Redis)
• Hands-on GenAI and LLM-based application experience: LLM API integration, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings/vector search, vector databases, AI agents/tool calling, LLM-based document processing, model evaluation and response-quality monitoring
• Experience integrating GenAI services with Java or enterprise backend applications
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, software development life cycle, and DevOps practices
• Experience with unit testing and automated testing (JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers)
• Experience with Git and Maven or Gradle; CI/CD pipelines and code quality tools
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices

Benefits

Not specified in the posting.