Lead Java Engineer

Location - Saint Louis, Missouri Must be able to work 2 days a week in the office

Must be able to work in US
no sponsorship provided US Citizen or GC Holder

My client is growing and looking for a senior java developer to lead, design and develop the web cloud platform

You must have experience

• Professional experience in microservices-based cloud-native development within an enterprise-level domain
• Experience leading teams
• Strong hands‑on experience architecting and implementing modern Java‑based applications. Advanced features like lambda expressions, Stream API, Completable Future, Virtual Threads, Concurrency APIs etc. Java 21 experience preferred.
• Experienced with implementing Microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, Starter Web, JPA, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Actuator Kafka, Redis
• AWS Experience (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, Dynamo Db, Lambda)
• Experience with Restful APIs and hexagonal architecture.
• Knowledge of relational database systems ex. RDS (Oracle) or Oracle on Amazon EC2
• Experience using container & serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS)
• Proficient with Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD), including using automated test frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Cypress, Wire Mock, Power Mock, Arch Unit)
• You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Jira).
• Experienced with Dev Ops creating CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Design and develop microservices using hexagonal architecture principles
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring secure and efficient communication
• Implement and manage asynchronous messaging systems using Kafka for inter-service communication.

Interested or for more information please send CV and we can then go through the role in more detail