Senior Java Full Stack Developer
Plano, TX
Date Posted:05-May-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:484219
Job Description
Position: Senior Java Full Stack Developer
Location: Plano-TX (Onsite- all 5 days)
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description:
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.
Top 3 skills:
Core Technology Stack:
Location: Plano-TX (Onsite- all 5 days)
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description:
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.
Top 3 skills:
- *Java 17 and above
- *Apache Kafka,Microservices, SpringBoot + AWS
- *Core Java
- 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
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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: $50.00/hr.