JAVA Backend Developer

Caspex - Seattle, WA

Full-time

Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The JAVA Backend Developer role is focused on designing and implementing high-performance, scalable solutions for large-scale distributed systems. The position requires extensive experience in Java and related technologies, with an emphasis on event-driven architectures and cloud environments. The developer will be responsible for troubleshooting live applications and optimizing performance in a continuous development environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data.
• Troubleshoot live applications and assess performance bottlenecks of applications running on Linux.
• Work with continuous development environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement caching strategies using L1/L2 caching techniques.
• Utilize KAFKA and Reactive Java for event-driven architecture.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in large scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Java/J2EE and SpringBoot.
• Hands-on experience with L1/L2 caching.
• Experience with KAFKA and Reactive Java is a plus.
• Knowledge of Cassandra, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Solid DevOps skills for troubleshooting applications in a Linux environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with reactive programming in Java.
• Familiarity with technologies used in building scalable, distributed systems in virtualized cloud environments.