Senior Java Backend Engineer – Microservices & OpenShift

Jobtailor; Alabama; On-site; USD 105,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled backend engineer in Alabama to design and build enterprise-grade APIs in Java using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. The role emphasizes microservices, API security, and scaling across OpenShift environments.

You will collaborate with mobile teams and QA, implement RESTful APIs, and own full lifecycle maintenance from development to production, with a focus on reliability and compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java backend development with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud for enterprise-grade APIs.
• Designing and developing microservices architectures with service decomposition and versioning.
• Hands-on experience deploying microservices on OpenShift/Kubernetes with containerization (Docker) and environment deployments.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, contract-first development, OpenAPI documentation, proper HTTP semantics, and standardized error handling.
• Experience integrating backend APIs with mobile platforms (iOS and Android) ensuring performance and secure data exchange.
• Knowledge of API security including OAuth2, JWT, mutual TLS, and token management in regulated banking environments.
• Familiarity with API gateways, routing, throttling, authentication, logging, and monitoring for mobile-facing APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices and OpenShift deployments.
• Ability to support APIs through full lifecycle: development, testing, production releases, monitoring, and remediation.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise and financial systems with compliance and high-availability expectations.

Responsibilities

• Creates and leads the technical design and development of software solutions.
• Proposes and designs software solutions to address complex business needs.
• Prepares technical and procedural documentation required.
• Facilitates complex problem resolution.
• Provides technical guidance and support to colleagues.
• Reviews coding, testing, and documentation of software.
• Applies modern principles, methodologies and tools to advance business initiatives and capabilities.

Skills

Java backend development

Microservices design

REST API design

API security

CI/CD

Collaboration with teams

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a skilled backend engineer in Alabama to design and build enterprise-grade APIs in Java using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. The role emphasizes microservices, API security, and scaling across OpenShift environments.

You will collaborate with mobile teams and QA, implement RESTful APIs, and own full lifecycle maintenance from development to production, with a focus on reliability and compliance.