Full Stack Java React Developer – Intermediate

Judge Group, Inc.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Judge Group, Inc. is seeking an FS Java React Engineer for a 7-month engagement in Jersey City, NJ. The role requires a 50/50 split between frontend and backend work, with hands-on Java and React experience and AWS familiarity.

Candidates should have 5–6 years of hands-on development, solid SDLC understanding, and the ability to design secure, scalable solutions. The position offers hourly compensation of $70–$75 and includes medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java development experience in a corporate environment.
• Front-end and back-end development proficiency (50/50 split).
• Experience with AWS and cloud services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting with non-routine approaches.
• Produces production-quality code and maintains core algorithms.
• Creates architecture artifacts and ensures design constraints are met by code.
• Gathers and analyzes data to improve software applications and systems.
• Identifies hidden data patterns to drive code hygiene and architecture improvements.
• Contributes to engineering communities and fosters inclusive team culture.

Skills

AWS

Java

React

Job description

Location: Jersey City, NJ Salary: $70.00 USD Hourly – $75.00 USD Hourly Description:

Job Title: FS Java React Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Duration: 7 months, with 6 months RTH

Must have:

50/50 front and backend

Min. 5 -6 years of hands on experience

AWS

Java

React

Nice to have:

AWS certification

Responisibilies:

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3 years’ applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in Java
• Experience with front end technology including React
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies including AWS
• Experience with Banking domain

Tech Stack

Java Ecosystem Java 17/21 (LTS), Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA/Reactive, Hibernate 6.x, Maven/Gradle, JUnit 5, Mockito, Lombok

AWS Cloud Services Amazon ECS/EKS (container orchestration), AWS Lambda (serverless), Amazon API Gateway, AWS CloudFormation/CDK (Infrastructure as Code), Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon SNS/SQS, AWS Step Functions, Amazon ElastiCache (Redis), AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, and Amazon ECR

Apache Kafka & Event Streaming Apache Kafka 3.x, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Confluent Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf), Spring Kafka, Kafka Consumer/Producer APIs, dead-letter queues (DLQ) pattern, exactly-once semantics (EOS), and AKHQ/Kafka UI for cluster monitoring

Database Technologies PostgreSQL 15 /Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL), Amazon RDS, Redis (caching & session management), Flyway/Liquibase (database migration), Hibernate ORM, Spring Data JPA/R2DBC (reactive), MongoDB (document store), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing/analytics)

DevOps & Observability Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Splunk/ELK Stack, Grafana/Prometheus and Git/GitHub Enterprise

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.