Job Title: Java Backend Developer
Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration: / Term: Contract
Experience Desired: 10+ Years
Job Description:
- Develop and maintain Java/Spring Boot API microservices for case management, work queues, financials, scheduling, and document generation.
- Implement business rules and step-by-step workflows tailored to each court type.
- Build data access across Amazon RDS, MongoDB, and OpenSearch, including search indexing for cases, contacts, statutes, and documents.
- Build integrations with payment gateways, e-signature, notification (Amazon SES/SNS), and state agency interfaces.
- Implement role-based permissions, case sealing, and audit logging according to security requirements.
- Write unit and integration tests; work through GitHub pull requests and GitHub Actions pipelines; support QA and fix defects promptly.
- Participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, estimation, and technical documentation.
Required Qualifications
- 9+ years of professional backend application development in Java (Spring Boot).
- Hands-on experience building API-based microservices (REST, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, API versioning).
- Strong experience with Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and SQL, plus MongoDB and an ORM (Hibernate/JPA).
- Working experience with OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch): indexing, mappings, and query DSL.
- Daily use of GitHub (branching, pull requests, code reviews) and GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD.
- Hands-on AWS experience: ECS/EKS or Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch.
- Working knowledge of OAuth2/JWT and secure coding; comfortable in Agile/Scrum teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Event-driven processing with Amazon MSK/Kafka, EventBridge, or Step Functions.
- Exposure to Amazon Bedrock or GenAI/RAG integrations.
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate.
Key Skills:
Java, API-based microservices, Spring Boot, AWS, Amazon RDS, SQL, MongoDB