Full Stack Java Developers (CONTRACT ROLE)

Attadale Partners, LLC

17h • Remote

About The Position

Attadale Partners, LLC is seeking to fill multiple Java Developer roles for early career Java Developers with 1-3 years of experience to join our team in a CONTRACTOR ROLE serving successful organizations and government agencies. As a management consulting firm, we are always looking for talented individuals to help improve our clients' business through technology. We have an opportunity to lead enterprise transformation roles including Agentic AI processes, cloud telephony, and integrated communication channels. In this role, you will be embedded in cross-functional teams with business leaders, senior engineers, and ML engineers to transform legacy business communications, data collection and analysis reporting. In addition, you will support the existing systems to ensure performance during the transition period. This role can be remote and all applicants must be US based with a preference for Chicago-area applicants. These roles are open to applicants already with the authority to work in the US. Unfortunately for these roles, we cannot sponsor new or transfer existing H-1B work visas. We serve large commercial clients in the financial services and health care, assisting them to transform and modernize their business operations across three pillars: agentic AI workflows, Amazon Connect telephony automation, and expanded self-service for agents and customers. We practice Extreme Programming (XP) —pair programming, TDD, and continuous integration are how we work every day. This is a day-one contributor role; minimum ramp-up time is expected.

Requirements

• 1-3+ years professional Java in production systems
• 2+ years Agile; XP experience strongly preferred
• 1+ year AWS cloud-native (Lambda, ECS)
• TDD — evidenced examples will be differentiators
• Event-driven microservices architecture
• Java 17 / 21 LTS (records, sealed classes, pattern matching) - Expert
• Spring Boot 3.x (auto-config, actuators, profiles, DI) - Expert
• Spring Security, OAuth2 / OIDC - Advanced
• REST API & OpenAPI 3.x design - Expert
• Unit & Integration Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito - Expert
• Test Driven Development (TDD) - Required
• AWS — Lambda, DynamoDB - Advanced
• Kafka / Amazon MSK (event-driven microservices) - Proficient
• CI/CD — trunk-based dev, GitHub Actions or equivalent - Advanced
• Communicates technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Gives and receives code review feedback constructively
• Thinks out loud; surfaces blockers early
• Cross-functional empathy — understands agent/customer impact
• Mentorship orientation; shares knowledge freely
• US based applicants only
• Authority to work in the US

Nice To Haves

• Amazon Connect / Contact Flows (Lambda handlers, Lex bots) - Preferred
• Agentic AI tooling — LLM APIs, tool-use loops, LangChain4j - Preferred / Will train
• Amazon Connect integration built end-to-end
• Agentic AI or LLM workflow implementation
• Insurance, Financial Services, or regulated industry background
• Open-source contributions (Java ecosystem)
• Systems scaled to 100k+ concurrent sessions
• AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA-C02) - Preferred
• Spring Professional Certification (VMware / Broadcom) - Preferred
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) - Advantageous
• AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty (MLS-C01) - Advantageous
• Curious about AI
• Comfortable in XP

Responsibilities

• Embedded in cross-functional teams with business leaders, senior engineers, and ML engineers to transform legacy business communications, data collection and analysis reporting.
• Support existing systems to ensure performance during the transition period.
• Transform and modernize business operations across three pillars: agentic AI workflows, Amazon Connect telephony automation, and expanded self-service for agents and customers.
• Practice Extreme Programming (XP) including pair programming, TDD, and continuous integration.
• Contribute from day one with minimum ramp-up time expected.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed