Senior Java Microservices Engineer - Cloud-Native (Remote)

STRATEGIC MINDZ LLC; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

STRATEGIC MINDZ LLC seeks an experienced Senior Java Developer to join the CSMS modernization team. You will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical microservices supporting child support case management operations in a cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has strong experience building loosely coupled services, implementing REST and messaging patterns, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions. Flexible work-from-home options are available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional Java development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java 21, including records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads.
• Proven experience designing and developing microservices architectures.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring MVC, Data, Security, and Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Batch for large-scale data processing.
• Strong Hibernate/JPA and relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, including API versioning and contract-first design.
• Experience with inter-service communication using REST, messaging queues, and/or event-driven patterns.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, and Lambda.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, Git, and collaborative development.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices using domain-driven design and service decomposition best practices.
• Develop scalable web applications, REST APIs, Spring Batch jobs, and integration services.
• Build well-defined API contracts and implement synchronous REST and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Develop and optimize Spring Batch jobs for high-volume processing and scheduled workflows.
• Implement data access using Hibernate/JPA and PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, enforce development standards, and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot distributed application and microservices issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Support third-party and inter-agency system integrations.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Cloud/AWS

REST APIs

Hibernate/JPA

CI/CD

Distributed systems

API versioning

Design patterns

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Service mesh

Job description

STRATEGIC MINDZ LLC seeks an experienced Senior Java Developer to join the CSMS modernization team. You will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical microservices supporting child support case management operations in a cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has strong experience building loosely coupled services, implementing REST and messaging patterns, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions. Flexible work-from-home options are available.