Senior Java Microservices Engineer

About the role

Location: Fort Worth, Texas 76155. Duration: 6+ months contract. Interview: Face‑to‑face required with a coding exercise.

Responsibilities

• Writes tests and documents technical work products e.g. code scripts process according to organizational standards and practices
• Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far‑ranging impact
• Delivers high quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address
• Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed scale and reliability
• Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate within ongoing implementations
• Consistently anticipates scaling latency and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies
• Partners with the security organization to incorporate security conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems
• Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies
• Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of influence recommends improvements to leadership and drives their implementation
• Maintains a focus on removing the duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence
• Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individuals
• Explores emerging technologies leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance and incorporates into architectural solutions where appropriate

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, CIS/MIS, Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years of experience designing, developing and implementing large‑scale solutions in production environments
• Airline industry experience

Skills

• 7‑9 years of experience
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• Cloud
• REST API
• Software development experience
• Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Frameworks: Spring/Spring Boot, FastAPI
• Front End Technologies: Angular, React
• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
• Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL
• Cloud Providers: Azure, AWS
• Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code and in diagrams
• Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small safe incremental releases
• Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities
• Ability to combine deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancing technology to introduce solutions that propel the technical capability of the organization forward
• Proficiency in object‑oriented design techniques and principles
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization

Schedule

Onsite Tuesdays‑Thursdays; virtual Mondays and Fridays at SV7. This is a 6‑month contract with potential to extend.