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Java Developer


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 October 2026 (11 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 21 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Java Developer

Remote

Lead Java Developer with at least recent 4 years of working in AWS cloud

About the Role Were looking for a Senior Java Developer to independently develop support and maintain secure Java applications and APIs hosted on AWS. These applications are business-critical so reliability security and operational ownership matter as much as feature delivery. Youll own your work end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment monitoring and production support and youll be the go-to engineer for CI/CD pipeline ownership and troubleshooting. Youll work closely with architects product managers and security and operations teams to keep our platform stable and compliant. What Youll Do Independently design develop and maintain Java applications and RESTful APIs using the Spring Framework (Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data and related modules) hosted on AWS. Build and support secure APIs with strong authentication and authorization (OAuth2/OIDC JWT) input validation secrets management and encryption in transit and at rest. Design and operate AWS-hosted services using EC2 API Gateway S3 Lambda and other relevant managed services including IAM VPC networking load balancing and CloudWatch monitoring. Own CI/CD pipelines for build test and deployment (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild or similar) and independently diagnose and resolve pipeline failures. Provide production support for business-critical applications including incident triage root-cause analysis performance tuning and post-incident remediation. Implement logging auditing and monitoring for applications and APIs to support traceability compliance and rapid incident response. Write clean well-tested code including unit integration and contract tests and enforce code quality through peer reviews and automated checks. Participate in security reviews threat modeling and vulnerability remediation and keep dependencies and runtime environments patched. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on Java Spring AWS best practices and secure coding standards. Document architecture deployment procedures and operational runbooks. What Youll Bring 6-8 years of professional Java software development experience including significant hands-on work building and supporting production applications and APIs. Excellent working knowledge of the Spring Framework including Spring Boot Spring Security and Spring Data along with the relevant underlying skills (dependency injection AOP transaction management and JPA/Hibernate). Strong AWS expertise with hands-on experience in EC2 API Gateway S3 and Lambda plus working knowledge of IAM VPC CloudWatch and related services. Demonstrated ability to independently own CI/CD pipelines including setup maintenance and troubleshooting of build and deployment failures. Strong track record of building secure applications and APIs with familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and API Security Top 10. Experience supporting mission-critical systems including on-call or production incident response performance tuning and root-cause analysis. Solid software engineering fundamentals: version control (Git) automated testing code review and design patterns. Ability to work independently with minimal day-to-day direction while coordinating effectively with cross-functional teams. Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders. Nice to Have AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified Developer - Associate/Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate). Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Amazon ECS/EKS Kubernetes). Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK). Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures (SQS SNS Kafka EventBridge). Experience in a regulated industry (healthcare financial services government) with exposure to HIPAA SOC 2 PCI-DSS. or Similar Framework.

Mandatory areas - Senior Java Developer - 8-10 years
Must Have skills:
Java
AWS
Microservices
Spring Framework
Spring Boot
Spring Security
Spring Data.

Mandatory if Applicable
Domain Experience (If any) - Healthcare good to have.
Nice to have Certifications - AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified Developer - Associate/Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate).
Prior UST experience - NA
If yes provide dates details of account/project
Location:
Onsite Requirement - Remote
Number of days onsite - NA
If onsite provide Office Address - NA


Required Skills:

AWS