Onsite 3 - 4 Days a Week

Strategic Mindz•Albany, NY

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer to join the CSMS modernization team. This role will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical microservices supporting child support case management operations. The ideal candidate has strong experience building loosely coupled, independently deployable services within a cloud-native environment.

Requirements

7+ years of professional Java development experience.
Strong proficiency in Java 21, including records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads.
Proven experience designing and developing microservices architectures.
Extensive experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring MVC, Data, Security, and Cloud.
Hands-on experience with Spring Batch for large-scale data processing.
Strong Hibernate/JPA and relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, including API versioning and contract-first design.
Experience with inter-service communication using REST, messaging queues, and/or event-driven patterns.
Experience deploying and operating microservices on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, and Lambda.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
Strong knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, Git, and collaborative development.
Understanding of distributed systems concepts including fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on government, state, federal, or other public-sector IT projects.
Experience with microservices patterns such as Saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and API composition.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, and service mesh technologies.
Knowledge of SQS, SNS, Kafka, API Gateway, or Spring Cloud Gateway.
Experience with centralized logging and distributed tracing tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Zipkin, or OpenTelemetry.
Knowledge of Terraform, CloudFormation, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, Flyway, or Liquibase.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices using domain-driven design and service decomposition best practices.
Develop scalable web applications, REST APIs, Spring Batch jobs, and integration services.
Build well-defined API contracts and implement synchronous REST and asynchronous messaging patterns.
Develop and optimize Spring Batch jobs for high-volume processing and scheduled workflows.
Implement data access using Hibernate/JPA and PostgreSQL.
Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Participate in code reviews, enforce development standards, and mentor junior developers.
Troubleshoot distributed application and microservices issues.
Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, unit testing, and integration testing.
Support third-party and inter-agency system integrations.