Senior Java Developer (Temporary Contract)

About You

You are a Senior Java Backend Engineer with strong experience building scalable high-performance backend systems within distributed and cloud-native environments. You are passionate about designing reliable architectures improving platform resilience and delivering secure maintainable solutions that support high-volume transactional systems.

You bring a proactive and solution-oriented mindset capable of working across complex microservices ecosystems while balancing scalability performance and operational excellence. You are comfortable navigating modern backend architectures containerized environments observability practices and cloud infrastructure while collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.

You thrive in environments where ownership technical leadership and continuous improvement are highly valued. You are adaptable detail-oriented and capable of mentoring engineers driving technical decisions and contributing to architecture and platform evolution initiatives.

• This position is offered under a 2-month contractor model.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field is desired or equivalent professional experience.
• 6 years of professional experience in Java backend development.
• 2 years of hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining Microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding and practical application of Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters).
• Proven experience building and optimizing backend applications in high-throughput low-latency environments.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL MySQL or DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with distributed caching technologies such as Redis or Memcached.
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services including AKS App Service Application Gateway and Storage Account.
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Exposure to CI/CD practices and tools such as Git GitHub Actions Jenkins or Terraform.
• Solid understanding of secure coding practices authentication flows and encryption fundamentals.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions such as Datadog Prometheus or Grafana.
• Experience working with SaaS platforms or high-volume transactional systems such as eCommerce or fintech platforms.
• Experience with Kafka GraphQL gRPC or Elasticsearch. (Nice to have).
• 2 years of experience mentoring engineers leading initiatives or owning critical services.
• Strong communication skills and advanced English proficiency for direct collaboration with US-based teams and stakeholders.

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable fault-tolerant backend services following Microservices and Hexagonal Architecture principles.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Docker and Azure-native infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Create architecture documentation estimations and user stories that support Agile delivery processes.
• Ensure platform performance security reliability and SLA compliance through engineering best practices.
• Mentor and guide engineers while promoting ownership quality and technical excellence.
• Lead and participate in code reviews to ensure scalability maintainability and adherence to engineering standards.
• Contribute to observability incident response and continuous platform improvement initiatives.
• Influence technical roadmaps and contribute to architecture tooling and platform decisions.
• Support operational excellence initiatives across backend systems and cloud environments.

Qualifications :

• Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with Microservices and Hexagonal Architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services (AKS App Service Application Gateway and Storage Account).
• Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information :

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo talented people design build and scale meaningful AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization we collaborate across design development cloud data and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate make decisions and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence Collaborative Teamwork Unsolicited Respect Consistent Transparency and Efficient Communication. These define how we work how we support one another and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast take ownership and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally investing in modern ways of working and leading AI-native transformation at scale.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time