Principal Java Full Stack Engineer

Randstad Digital Americas; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 74,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital Americas is seeking a senior software engineer to lead enterprise modernization initiatives, migrate legacy apps, and drive platform standardization across large organizations.

You will apply Java 17+, Spring Boot, ReactJS, and cloud-native patterns with a strong focus on secure coding, architectural governance, and observable systems.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering enterprise-grade applications with Java 17+ and Spring.
• Strong REST API, microservices, and event-driven architecture experience.
• Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and observable systems.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

ReactJS

REST APIs

Microservices

Jenkins

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Oracle SQL

JVM tuning

Security

CI/CD

Code reviews

Auth & API security

Event-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Artifactory

Bitbucket

SonarQube

Jenkins

Job description

• Experience leading enterprise modernization initiatives and legacy application transformation.
• Hands-on experience with OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, and enterprise identity management solutions.
• Experience implementing audit, compliance, and governance capabilities within enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, logging frameworks, and SRE practices.
• Experience with event-streaming platforms such as Kafka or enterprise messaging solutions.
• Financial services or regulatory compliance domain experience.
• Proven track record of driving engineering excellence, technology innovation, and platform standardization across large organizations.

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading enterprise modernization initiatives and legacy application transformation.
• Hands-on experience with OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, and enterprise identity management solutions.
• Experience implementing audit, compliance, and governance capabilities within enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, logging frameworks, and SRE practices.
• Experience with event-streaming platforms such as Kafka or enterprise messaging solutions.
• Financial services or regulatory compliance domain experience.
• Proven track record of driving engineering excellence, technology innovation, and platform standardization across large organizations.

location: Charlotte, North Carolina

job type: Contract

salary: $54.00 - 64.62 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

Required Skills

• Expert-level hands-on full stack development experience using Java 17+, Spring Boot, ReactJS, and enterprise application frameworks.
• Deep expertise in designing, building, and optimizing highly scalable, resilient, and secure applications.
• Extensive experience developing REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Security, JPA, Hibernate, and Oracle SQL.
• Advanced understanding of application performance tuning, memory analysis, JVM optimization, and database query optimization.
• Experience implementing secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, and application security controls.
• Strong experience with code reviews, design reviews, technical governance, and engineering best practices.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, SonarQube, Bitbucket, Artifactory, and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with containerized applications using Kubernetes/OpenShift and Helm.
• Strong proficiency in unit testing, integration testing, contract testing, and test automation frameworks.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and driving root cause analysis and remediation efforts.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, caching, API security, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience working in Agile environments and leading technical implementation across multiple teams.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across the organization.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.

Qualifications

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading enterprise modernization initiatives and legacy application transformation.
• Hands-on experience with OIDC, OAuth2, JWT, and enterprise identity management solutions.
• Experience implementing audit, compliance, and governance capabilities within enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of observability platforms, distributed tracing, logging frameworks, and SRE practices.
• Experience with event-streaming platforms such as Kafka or enterprise messaging solutions.
• Financial services or regulatory compliance domain experience.
• Proven track record of driving engineering excellence, technology innovation, and platform standardization across large organizations.

Skills

• Agile environments
• application performance
• Artifactory
• Bitbucket
• caching
• code reviews
• Strong programming skills
• concurrency
• containerized applications
• CI/CD pipelines
• database query
• distributed systems
• enterprise application
• Hibernate
• integration testing
• Java 17+
• Java
• JPA
• JVM
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• microservices
• OpenShift
• Oracle SQL
• tuning
• ReactJS
• REST APIs
• secure coding practices
• secure applications
• application security
• API security
• test automation frameworks
• vulnerability remediation
• SonarQube
• Spring Framework
• Spring Security
• Spring Boot
• unit testing
• Strong communication skills
• executive leadership
• resilient
• automated testing frameworks
• full stack development
• governance
• mentor
• root cause analysis
• technical implementation
• technical direction
• testing

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.