Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Java/Spring Boot + React

BCforward; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 103,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Software Engineering - Full Stack Developer - Advanced to join our Columbus team on a contract basis. Candidates should bring deep experience with Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, and AWS, and be able to design, build, secure, and operate scalable full-stack systems in production.

The role emphasizes backend services with Java/Spring Boot, frontend development with React/TypeScript, Kafka-driven event streams, API design, security via OAuth2/OIDC, and Infrastructure as

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on full-stack development as an individual contributor.
• Strong Java, OOP and functional patterns, concurrency, collections, and performance profiling.
• Advanced Spring Boot covering controllers, validation, exception handling, filters, interceptors, content negotiation, file streaming, and async processing.
• Spring Data/JPA with entity modeling, transactions, isolation levels, pagination, and query tuning.
• Spring Security with OAuth2/OIDC, method-level security, CORS/CSRF, and secure token/session handling.
• Kafka design and operations including topics, partitions, producers/consumers, consumer groups, Avro schemas, Kafka Connect/Streams, ACLs/TLS, and monitoring/tuning.
• API integration with resilient clients, including timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and request signing when required.
• Frontend React and TypeScript, component design, hooks, state management, routing, forms, and client-side error handling.
• AWS experience shipping production workloads with ECS, EC2 autoscaling, VPC, subnets, security groups, S3, RDS/Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB awareness, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate backend services using Java and Spring Boot with high reliability and performance.
• Build responsive React and TypeScript frontends with robust state management, routing, and accessibility.
• Develop and manage Kafka-based event streaming solutions, including topics, schemas, and consumers.
• Design OpenAPI-first REST APIs with versioning, idempotency, and consistent error handling.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization with Spring Security and OAuth2/OIDC.
• Model data with JPA, tune queries, and implement resilient transactions and pagination.
• Deploy and operate workloads on AWS using ECS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, SQS/SNS, and CloudWatch.
• Create infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK with environment promotion.
• Establish observability with structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alarms.
• Drive quality through automated testing, performance testing, and secure SDLC practices.
• Contribute to runbooks, on-call readiness, and postmortems with preventative actions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

TypeScript

AWS

Kafka

SQL

Observability

REST APIs

OAuth2/OIDC

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Docker

OpenAPI

Kubernetes

Splunk

Job description

BCforward is seeking a Software Engineering - Full Stack Developer - Advanced to join our Columbus team on a contract basis. Candidates should bring deep experience with Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, and AWS, and be able to design, build, secure, and operate scalable full-stack systems in production.

The role emphasizes backend services with Java/Spring Boot, frontend development with React/TypeScript, Kafka-driven event streams, API design, security via OAuth2/OIDC, and Infrastructure as