Senior Java Engineer - Cloud, Microservices, AWS

Sharp Decisions; California, Northern (MO, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Sr. Developer to deliver backend-heavy digital solutions and strengthen customer experience initiatives. You will work across design, development, production support, and solutioning in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, AWS cloud, microservices, and CI/CD, with a strong focus on performance, security, and scalable architectures in Agile teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development with backend focus.
• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Cloud-native applications on AWS with serverless and containers.
• Microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Security best practices for cloud applications (IAM, OAuth2, JWT).
• Agile/Scrum team experience and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support backend systems with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot.
• Design and maintain cloud-native apps on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB.
• Build and operate microservices and RESTful APIs; ensure security and scalability.
• Containerize and orchestrate with Docker/Kubernetes; leverage CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate in Agile teams, participate in architecture discussions, code reviews.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

AWS

Microservices

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Security IAM

JVM Tuning

Agile/Scrum

NoSQL DynamoDB

SQL RDS

Event-driven

Lambda

SQS/SNS

GitHub Actions

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitHub Actions

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Sharp Decisions is seeking a Sr. Developer to deliver backend-heavy digital solutions and strengthen customer experience initiatives. You will work across design, development, production support, and solutioning in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, AWS cloud, microservices, and CI/CD, with a strong focus on performance, security, and scalable architectures in Agile teams.