Java Backend Engineer - Onsite Interview required

Location: Vienna, VA – Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 days remote). Type: Contract, long‑term expected. Compensation: W‑2 or C2C, H‑1B ok, no OPT. Hours: 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, integrate, and maintain secure backend services and APIs supporting mobile, web, enterprise, and partner systems.
• Design for performance, reliability, resiliency, observability, quality, and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define, design, and deliver sustainable technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to support reliable delivery.
• Apply secure coding, data protection, and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot production defects, performance bottlenecks, integration issues, and complex service dependencies.
• Refactor code and conduct peer reviews to improve security, quality, readability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to solution design, technical documentation, and proof‑of‑concepts that support architectural decisions.
• Support services across testing, deployment, production troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvement.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and advocate for adaptive planning, automation, reusable solutions, and continuous improvement.
• Share knowledge and support the development of less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• Strong Java experience, with Java 17 or newer preferred.
• Solid knowledge of enterprise Java, Spring, Spring Boot, web services, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and practices, such as JUnit and Mockito.
• Proficiency with Git and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of databases, SQL, and data integration patterns.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and designing scalable, resilient, observable microservices.
• Experience developing cloud‑native applications, with Microsoft Azure strongly preferred.
• Effective communication, independent prioritization, and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, and voluntary plans.
• Participation in a 401(k) plan.
• Eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options.