Java Back End Developer

Payrate: $70.00 – $80.00/hr.

Summary:
Lead the technical architecture and vision for Company s next-generation Customer Data Store platform. This influential role will drive critical architectural decisions for a high-volume, low-latency data platform leveraging Google Cloud Platform s cutting‑edge technologies including Spanner, Bigtable, and serverless architectures. The ideal candidate will serve as the primary technical influencer, working closely with executive stakeholders to align technical strategy with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the overall technical architecture for the Customer Data Store platform supporting 100K+ TPS – Lead Oracle to Google Cloud Platform migration strategy, ensuring zero‑downtime transition
• Make technical decisions affecting multiple teams across organizational boundaries
• Establish architectural conventions, patterns, and best practices for the entire engineering organization
• Partner with Product Owner and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Evaluate and recommend optimal Google Cloud Platform service mix (Spanner, Bigtable, Big Query) based on use case requirements
• Design polyglot persistence strategies leveraging appropriate data services
• Drive technical excellence through architecture reviews, design documentation, and hands‑on prototyping
• Mentor and guide distributed teams across San Jose and Bangalore locations
• Represent Company in external forums, conferences, and with cloud partners

Qualifications:

• Minimum 12 years of software engineering experience with focus on distributed systems
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Deep expertise in cloud‑native architectures (Google Cloud Platform preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable)
• Proven experience migrating large‑scale systems from traditional RDBMS to cloud‑native solutions
• Strong background in both SQL and No
  
  SQL database technologies
• Experience with high‑throughput, low‑latency system design – Excellence in technical communication with both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Track record of influencing architectural decisions at enterprise scale

Desired

Skills:

• Expert‑level Java development (Java 21+) with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• Deep understanding of reactive programming with Spring Web Flux and Project Reactor
• Experience with microservices patterns:
  Circuit Breaker, Saga, CQRS, Event Sourcing
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform services:
  Spanner, Bigtable, Cloud Run, Dataflow
• Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts: CAP theorem, consensus algorithms
• Experience with observability tools and practices (distributed tracing, metrics, logging)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform services (Spanner, Bigtable, Dataflow, Cloud Run)
• Financial services or payment processing domain knowledge
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams
• Published articles, patents, or conference presentations on distributed systems
• Contributions to Spring Framework or other open‑source Java projects

Pay Transparency:
The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $70.00 – $80.00/hr. Non‑exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience.

Full‑time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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