Senior Application Developer

We are looking for a Sr. Java Developer

This role involves joining a highly collaborative, service-oriented engineering team supporting a large client-facing application environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical professional who combines strong development and problem-solving capabilities with excellent communication skills to interact directly with service teams and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, troubleshoot, and support applications within a Java-based environment.
• Take ownership of bugs, enhancements, production issues, and client/service requests from initial triage through resolution.
• Independently investigate technical issues and determine appropriate tactical and long-term solutions.
• Work effectively with minimal technical guidance and proactively determine next steps.
• Partner directly with internal service teams, technical stakeholders, and client-facing organizations to understand and resolve issues.
• Participate in client-facing technical discussions and clearly communicate technical issues, solutions, risks, and timelines.
• Support applications and services hosted within AWS.
• Work with databases as part of application development, troubleshooting, and production support activities.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to accelerate development, troubleshooting, testing, and solution delivery.
• Maintain a strong sense of urgency when addressing client-impacting issues.
• Contribute to an environment where engineers are expected to be problem solvers and solution builders, not simply task-based developers.
• Collaborate across development, QA, service, and business teams to improve application quality and the overall client experience.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Java development experience.
• Solid application development and coding background with the ability to independently troubleshoot and modify existing applications.
• Experience working with databases, including the ability to investigate and resolve application/database-related issues.
• Experience supporting or developing applications hosted within AWS.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of technical issues without requiring detailed direction.
• Experience supporting bugs, enhancements, production issues, or service-related requests in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable interacting directly with non-technical stakeholders, service organizations, and clients.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with communication and relationship management.
• Experience utilizing or willingness to heavily leverage AI development/coding tools as part of the engineering workflow.

Required Skills:

• Java development
• Application development and coding
• Database management
• AWS support and development
• Production troubleshooting
• Root-cause analysis
• Technical ownership
• Communication skills
• AI development tools

Preferred Skills:

• Previous experience working within the client's existing platform or technical environment is highly preferred.
• Previous experience supporting a large client-facing application or SaaS environment.
• Experience working in a role that combines application development and production/service support.
• Additional QA, testing, or test automation experience, provided the candidate also possesses strong hands-on coding capabilities.
• Experience working across development, QA, production support, and service organizations.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical information directly to customers or external clients.