Senior Java Engineer — AI-Driven Microservices & Cloud

Socket.dev; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation policy

Paid holidays

Parental leave and transition program

Tuition reimbursement

Gift matching program

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Java Engineer - AI & Agentic Platforms to design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and cloud-native applications powering AI-driven solutions.

The candidate should have strong Java 17+ experience, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed systems, plus exposure to AI integrations and cloud platforms. Expect collaboration with architects and product teams to deliver robust, observable services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years building and supporting microservices-based applications.
• Strong development experience with Java (17+), Spring Boot, Spring Cloud.
• REST APIs, gRPC (preferred), GraphQL (preferred).
• Reactive Java (nice to have).
• Experience with Redis or similar caching technologies, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices; monitoring/observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Java microservices and backend applications.
• Build and integrate AI-enabled applications using modern frameworks and APIs.
• Develop scalable RESTful APIs and event-driven services.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to cloud-native application development and deployment.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and application observability initiatives.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

AI integrations

Python/TypeScript

Messaging systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Java Engineer - AI & Agentic Platforms to design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and cloud-native applications powering AI-driven solutions.

The candidate should have strong Java 17+ experience, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed systems, plus exposure to AI integrations and cloud platforms. Expect collaboration with architects and product teams to deliver robust, observable services.