Java Backend Developer

Golden Technology; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden Technology in Cary, NC seeks a seasoned Java developer to design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services. You will work across front-end, middle tier, and back-end layers, integrate Spring Boot architectures, and deploy components in AWS EKS.

Strong focus on quality, performance, and on-call responsiveness is expected. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Java experience, proficiency with Angular or similar frontend, and hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, and relational/noSQL

Qualifications

• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independently with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience defining requirements, designing and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally, including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 5 years of Java experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier, and backend technologies.
• Experience in front-end technologies like Angular or equivalent.
• Expertise in Spring and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, HTTP APIs, and managing REST services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise using version control software such as Git.
• Experience handling deployment processes, deployment environments, and production application troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS clusters.
• Experience using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with security concepts such as handling JWT tokens and understanding OIDC flows.
• Bachelor's degree requirement or
• Master's degree requirement and years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support and conduct system/performance/volume/stress testing.
• Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate user interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups and user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into applications.
• Provide feedback to UX teams.
• Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs.
• When acting as the primary on-call, respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or elevate issues as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolutions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct analysis and design work.
• Prepare technical documentation.
• Estimate work effort (story pointing) and task-out development effort for a given story or task.
• Follow the development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.
• Evangelize common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in a given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Angular

RESTful APIs

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

DevOps

DNS/HTTP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Aurora RDS

Job description

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support and conduct system/performance/volume/stress testing.
• Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate user interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups and user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into applications.
• Provide feedback to UX teams.
• Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs.
• When acting as the primary on-call, respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or elevate issues as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolutions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct analysis and design work.
• Prepare technical documentation.
• Estimate work effort (story pointing) and task-out development effort for a given story or task.
• Follow the development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.
• Evangelize common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in a given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independently with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience defining requirements, designing and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally, including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 5 years of Java experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier, and backend technologies.
• Experience in front-end technologies like Angular or equivalent.
• Expertise in Spring and Spring Boot.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, HTTP APIs, and managing REST services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise using version control software such as Git.
• Experience handling deployment processes, deployment environments, and production application troubleshooting techniques.
• Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS clusters.
• Experience using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with security concepts such as handling JWT tokens and understanding OIDC flows.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a development environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience building containerized applications; Kubernetes experience a plus.
• Experience working with AWS cloud native services such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS, and Route53.
• Experience with Aurora RDS, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
• Experience working with messaging and MQ brokers.
• Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification.