Senior Platform Core Engineer – Scalable Java Services

TEKsystems; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Short and long‑term disability

Health Spending Account (HSA)

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick)

Job summary

TEKsystems in Foster City, CA is seeking an Expert Level Software Engineer to design, develop and operate high performance REST micro-services and Java libraries at scale. You will collaborate with product, architecture and operations to deliver reliable services across platforms.

The role requires hands-on Java/Spring Boot, AWS, SQL and Python, with 5+ years of experience. Hybrid work in Foster City and on-call rotations are included, with a competitive hourly rate and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software development experience, proficiency in GO and/or Java programming and Object-oriented analysis and design.
• Experience developing high performance, scalable, active-active web services using REST, JSON and XML.
• Experience working with spring, spring boot and related spring technologies.
• Proven understanding of SQL. Experience working with relational (Oracle or similar) and NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Dynamo or similar).
• Hands‑on experience in Amazon Web Services at enterprise scale including EKS and managed services like DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda etc.
• Experience with Python is a plus.
• Track record monitoring and analyzing system performance, isolating issues or bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance and scalability.
• Experience executing performance testing and/or development efforts for complex, high throughput system.
• Drive and passion for quality with the ability to excite and motivate other team members.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work with geographically remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform in-depth analysis of functional or business requirements.
• Design and develop highly performant and scalable services and libraries using industry standards.
• Role in design, development, quality and operations of services owned by the team partnering across product management, architects and operations. Drive performance testing strategy, define workflows. Develop test scripts and scenarios to meet these requirements.
• Position requires hands‑on technical expertise coupled with excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Use agile development methodologies, provide time/resource estimates.
• Participate in on‑call rotations.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS services

SQL

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor or Masters degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

TEKsystems in Foster City, CA is seeking an Expert Level Software Engineer to design, develop and operate high performance REST micro-services and Java libraries at scale. You will collaborate with product, architecture and operations to deliver reliable services across platforms.

The role requires hands-on Java/Spring Boot, AWS, SQL and Python, with 5+ years of experience. Hybrid work in Foster City and on-call rotations are included, with a competitive hourly rate and strong benefits.