Senior Software Engineer – Java & Azure Microservices

Job Description

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren MI or Austin TX three times per week.

The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to design build and evolve modern cloud-native enterprise applications that power critical customer and dealer this role you will architect and implement scalable microservices and secure APIs using Java Spring Boot and Microsoft Azure partnering closely with product managers architects and cross-functional teams.
You will play a key role in shaping technical direction improving engineering practices and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced Agile environment. This role is highly hands-on while also providing technical leadership mentoring team members and championing best practices in a microservices-based cloud-native ecosystem.

What Youll Do

• Design develop and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot running on Azure.
• Build secure scalable and resilient services leveraging Azure services (for example: AKS Azure SQL Cosmos DB Service Bus Key Vault App Gateway).
• Collaborate with architects and product teams to translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.
• Own services end-to-end: design development testing deployment observability support and continuous improvement.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines automation and DevOps practices to improve deployment speed and reliability.
• Design and tune data models and integrations with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL Oracle MySQL Redis Cassandra etc.).
• Apply cloud-native and distributed systems patterns (circuit breakers retries caching event-driven design) to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (for example: GitHub Copilot Cursor Codeium) to accelerate delivery and elevate code quality.
• Participate in code reviews technical design discussions and architecture forums; drive high engineering standards across the team.
• Mentor developers pair program and provide technical guidance to help grow the teams capabilities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our engineering practices tooling and platform capabilities.

• 7 years of professional software development experience building production-grade applications.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a closely related technical field or equivalent demonstrable professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot including microservices-based architectures.
• Proven experience designing building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure preferably including container-based workloads.
• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS) for container orchestration deployment and scaling.
• Working knowledge of both relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL Oracle MySQL Redis or Cassandra.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices and Git-based workflows (for example: GitHub Azure DevOps).
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures distributed systems resiliency and scalability patterns.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot Cursor Codeium etc.) to improve developer productivity and code quality.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers lead design sessions and influence architecture and engineering decisions.

• Experience designing and operating large-scale high-availability systems in a global enterprise environment.
• Deep expertise with additional Azure services (for example: Event Hubs Service Bus Functions API Management Application Insights Azure Monitor).
• Strong experience with event-driven architectures messaging and streaming platforms (Kafka Event Hubs or similar).
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling (logging metrics tracing) and building SLO/SLA-oriented services.
• Practical experience with security best practices (OAuth2/OIDC JWT mTLS secrets management zero-trust patterns).
• Background in front-end or full-stack development (React Angular or similar) working with modern design systems.
• Experience modernizing legacy/monolithic applications to microservices and cloud-native architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Inspire coach and elevate other engineers through mentoring and pairing.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration safety and continuous learning.
  • Provide clear technical perspective and simplify complex problems for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Champion change and drive adoption of new tools patterns and engineering practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias toward action and ownership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and levels.

This position may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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