Senior Software Engineer

Request Technology, LLC; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Request Technology, LLC is seeking a senior software engineer in the Oakland, CA area (or Alpharetta, GA) for a 12+ month contract with potential conversion to FTE. The role requires hands-on development of secure, high‑performing enterprise applications using Java, Spring, and microservices in a hybrid onsite model.

You will own features end-to-end, drive API modernization, and collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD, cloud deployments, and monitoring.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, RESTful API design, OOP, and microservices.
• Experience with automated testing, TDD, unit testing, mocking, contract testing, and integration testing.
• Experience deploying containerized apps to cloud using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows (GitHub, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle).
• Experience with monitoring/troubleshooting using Datadog and Splunk.
• Healthcare tech data experience and Azure services are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Create production‑ready software with scalable, secure design and high performance.
• Own features end to end: design, code, test, document, release readiness, deployment validation, monitoring and incident response.
• Lead API modernization and cloud-native migrations for service decomposition.
• Define and promote consistent API standards: versioning, error handling, authentication, and lifecycle management.
• Build secure integrations using API management and OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect/JWT/TLS.
• Collaborate with DevOps/cloud teams to maintain CI/CD, GitOps pipelines, container images, and environment controls.
• Implement observability with logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Design and execute unit/contract/integration/end‑to‑end/performance/security tests; apply TDD where appropriate.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservice architecture

Test-driven development

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

API design

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Maven

Gradle

Helm

Argo CD

Azure Kubernetes Service

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Location: Alpharetta, GA or Oakland, CA (local candidates only)

Hybrid: 1-2 days onsite/week

Duration: 12+ months with possible conversion to FTE

*This role is open to USC or GC candidates only*

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands‑on experience designing and developing secure, high-performing enterprise applications and web services.
• Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, RESTful API design, object-oriented development, and microservice architecture.
• Experience with automated testing, test‑driven development, unit testing, mocking frameworks, contract testing, and integration testing.
• Experience deploying containerized applications to a public or private cloud platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and source‑control workflows using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, or comparable tools.
• Experience implementing application monitoring and troubleshooting production systems using platforms such as Datadog and Splunk.
• Experience with healthcare technology, dental or medical claims processing, claims adjudication, eligibility, benefits, provider, member, payment, or treatment‑history data. (highly preferred)
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure API Management, managed identity, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and related platform services. (highly preferred)

Languages & Frameworks:

Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, REST APIs, SQL

API & Security API Management:

OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, TLS

DevOps & Delivery:

GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Helm, Argo CD

Quality & Operations:

JUnit, Mockito, contract testing, Datadog, Splunk, distributed tracing

Responsibilities

• Create production‑ready software using sound data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks, with strong attention to maintainability, scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and operational simplicity.
• Own features and services end to end, including technical design, coding, automated testing, documentation, release readiness, deployment validation, monitoring, incident response, and production health.
• Provide technical leadership for API modernization, service decomposition, integration patterns, and migration from legacy service implementations to cloud‑native architectures.
• Define and promote consistent API standards, including resource modeling, versioning, error handling, idempotency, authentication and authorization, backward compatibility, and lifecycle management.
• Build secure integrations using API management and industry‑standard security patterns such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, TLS, secrets management, and least‑privilege access.
• Collaborate with DevOps and cloud platform teams to build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, container images, deployment configurations, environment controls, and automated release processes.
• Implement observability through structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerts, synthetic monitoring, and actionable service‑level indicators.
• Design and execute unit, component, contract, integration, end‑to‑end, performance, resiliency, and security testing. Apply test‑driven development where appropriate and improve automated quality gates.