Associate Software Engineer — Java, Microservices

Forbes Technical Consulting LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Forbes Technical Consulting LLC in downtown Chicago is seeking a software engineer with up to 2 years of experience to contribute to cloud-based, scalable infrastructure powering instrument management, settlements, and clearing systems.

The engineer will work alongside senior team members, gradually taking ownership of components and features while growing technical skills in a microservices architecture with Kafka, Postgres, and JVM considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 2 years or less of professional experience (internships will be considered).
• Proficiency in Java with willingness to learn concurrency, memory management, and JVM behavior.
• Familiarity with microservices, event streaming, and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the technical design and implementation of core infrastructure components under senior guidance.
• Take ownership of and maintain features within a microservices architecture, writing clean, functional code that follows established patterns.
• Contribute to distributed systems work, building hands-on experience with Kafka, Postgres, and in-memory data structures.
• Work with team members to translate requirements into technical tasks while learning the product and engineering workflows.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response, learning to monitor system health and interpret logs and dashboards with senior support.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

PostgreSQL

Kafka

In-memory data structures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

JVM

Job description

Forbes Technical Consulting LLC in downtown Chicago is seeking a software engineer with up to 2 years of experience to contribute to cloud-based, scalable infrastructure powering instrument management, settlements, and clearing systems.

The engineer will work alongside senior team members, gradually taking ownership of components and features while growing technical skills in a microservices architecture with Kafka, Postgres, and JVM considerations.