Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Job Description

Role:

Senior Java Full Stack Developer

Location :

Columbus-OH Onsite

• all 5 days

Duration:

10 Months What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• Java 17 and above,
• Apache Kafka,Microservices, SpringBoot + AWS
• Core Java Job Description/ Responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Java Full Stack Developer to design, build, and scale mission-critical platforms for a high-growth enterprise environment. You will take end-to-end ownership of cloud-native microservices on AWS, architect event-driven pipelines with Apache Kafka, and deliver robust Spring Boot APIs consumed by modern React front ends. This is a hands-on engineering role with meaningful influence on architecture, standards, and team capability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security; strong understanding of JVM internals and performance tuning.
• Hands-on production experience with

Apache Kafka:

topic design, consumer group management, schema registry, and stream processing (Kafka Streams or equivalent).

• Solid understanding of microservices patterns: service decomposition, API gateway, circuit breaking, event sourcing, and CQRS.
• Strong AWS skills across compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda), networking (VPC, ALB, API Gateway), storage (RDS, DynamoDB, S3), messaging (SNS/SQS, EventBridge), and security (IAM, KMS, WAF).
• Proficient with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions or Jenkins), containerisation (Docker), and IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL/Aurora/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/DocumentDB); practical Redis caching strategies.
• Front-end capability in React + TypeScript, including component architecture, routing, and state management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers.

CORE TECHNOLOGY STACK

Backend :

Java 17, Spring Boot 3, Spring Cloud, Spring WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate, Resilience4j

Messaging :

Apache Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Avro, Schema Registry

APIs :

REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI 3, Pact, WireMock

Data :

PostgreSQL / Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis / ElastiCache, S3, OpenSearch

Frontend :

React 18, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, React Query, Vite, Jest, Playwright

AWS :

ECS / EKS

/ Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, WAF

DevOps & IaC :

Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana Applicant Notices & Disclaimers For information on benefits, equal opportunity employment, and location-specific applicant notices, click here At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $44.00/hr.