Senior Java Developer - Las Vegas, NV

Photon; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Photon is looking for a talented software developer to work on microservice applications in Java Spring Boot. The role requires a strong understanding of databases and automated testing, with a minimum of 6 years of development experience. Benefits for full-time employees include medical, vision, dental, and a 401k retirement plan. Compensation ranges from USD 33,000 to USD 118,000 based on experience, and this position is also open to independent contractors.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand and translate business/functional requirements to high/low-level designs.
• Experience in Java Spring Boot and RESTful microservices development.
• 6+ years of software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and marketing to implement detailed customer applications.
• Build microservice applications using best practices.
• Write high-quality, scalable, reusable and fault-tolerant code.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

RESTful microservices development

Concurrency frameworks (Mono, Flux)

Oracle, MS SQL, or Postgres

Automated testing (JUnit)

Tools like Jira, GitLab, Swagger, Postman, SOAP UI

Monitoring tools (Kibana, ELK, Dynatrace)

Data structures and design patterns

6+ years of software development experience

Agile/Scrum methodologies

ORM frameworks (Entity, Hibernate, Dapper)

API authentication using OAuth

Queuing or streaming engines (Kafka)

Docker, Git, SonarQube

Job description

What will you do?

• Partner with business and marketing to implement detailed customer applications
• Build microservice applications using best practices
• Write high-quality, scalable, reusable and fault-tolerant code
• Write automated unit tests and perform API validations
• Debug errors, troubleshoot issues, and perform routine performance optimizations
• Collaborate with Solution Architect and define API schema
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate UI components with APIs
• Collaborate with Product Owners to gather business requirements and groom user stories
• Participate in application lifecycle events (e.g. Feature Launches, Releases, Deployment Windows)
• Contribute and maintain high quality technical documentation
• Actively participate in scrum/agile ceremonies
• Gather and document requirements for development and delivery
• Contribute code to improve and implement new and existing features
• Perform peer code reviews
• Communicate with business and various other departments

What are we looking for?

• Ability to understand and translate business/functional requirements to high/low-level designs
• Experience in Java Spring Boot and RESTful microservices development
• Experience in working with one of the concurrency frameworks like Mono, Flux
• Strong relational database experience in either Oracle, MS SQL, or Postgres
• Experience with automated testing and tools such as JUnit
• Experience in using tools like Jira, GitLab, Swagger, Postman, SOAP UI
• Experience using logging framework and understanding of monitoring tools like Kibana, ELK, Dynatrace
• Strong understanding of data structures, design patterns and asynchronous programming
• 6+ years of software development experience
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum/iterative development methodologies
• Experience working in ORM frameworks like Entity, Hibernate, Dapper
• Knowledge of API authentication using OAuth
• Knowledge of queuing or streaming engines like Kafka
• Knowledge of Docker, Git, SonarQube and other deployment tools for CI/CD

Compensation, Benefits & Duration

Minimum Compensation: USD 33,000. Maximum Compensation: USD 118,000. Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full‑time employees.

This position is also available for independent contractors.