Role OverviewJoin an established technology consulting and software development company offering tremendous career growth potential. As a Principal Java Developer, you will be responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, from translating business requirements into robust technical designs, to writing production-quality code, to deploying cloud-native services and supporting them through their full operational lifespan.
What You Will Do
Architect, design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade web applications and distributed systems that operate at significant scale and across multiple business domains. You will work closely with product managers, architects, DevOps engineers, and fellow developers in an Agile environment to deliver high-quality, secure, and performant applications that directly support strategic business outcomes.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The successful candidate will bring deep backend expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem, combined with strong hands-on experience building responsive, component-driven front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- 12 or more years of professional software development experience building production-grade enterprise applications.
- Strong, demonstrable understanding of data structures, algorithms, computational complexity, and end-to-end system design principles.
- Advanced working knowledge of Java (versions 11 and 17), the Spring Boot framework, and the design of clean, idiomatic RESTful APIs.
- Hands-on, production-level experience designing and operating microservices architectures, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, and observability patterns.
- Proven experience developing front-end applications using React, with working familiarity in Angular or Vue considered a strong plus.
- Strong SQL skills and meaningful experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server, including query tuning and schema design.
- Solid experience with CI/CD tooling and Git-based version control workflows, including branching strategies, code review practices, and release management.
- Hands-on experience deploying applications to at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including familiarity with managed services, networking, and identity primitives.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills, with the discipline to investigate problems methodically and document findings clearly.
Benefits
- Salary Range: $120,000–$170,000 Annually
- 100% Remote (United States)
- Full-time, Direct W2
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