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We are Looking for a Sr Full Stack Developer with AWS - Advanced - Columbus, OH Position Type: Contract to Hire Duration: 6+ Months Java Full Stack - (Hands-on IC, 7+ yrs) Spring + React + AWS + Kafka Must Have: • Java/Spring Boot/Microservices/API/Kafka + AWS – MUST HAVE • There is a small front end built in React – 10% front end would be perfect • Will be working with S3/Lambdas/ECS clusters/EC2 – Must have • Will be using Docker/Kubernetes to work within ECS – Must have • Will need to be strong in building API’s from scratch • No existing code or API’s – Will all be new from scratch • Looking for someone Sr, can work on their own, confident, good communication skills • Group is using Splunk/Dynatrace/Grafana – big plus • 8+ years experience preferred 1) Backend (Java/Spring Boot) expert • Java: strong OOP + functional style, concurrency, collections, memory/perf awareness; can read thread dumps/heap dumps and profile hotspots.. • Kafka: Experience designing, building, and operating Kafka-based event streaming platforms-topics/partitions, producers/consumers, consumer groups, schema/serialization (Avro), Kafka Connect/Streams, security (ACLs/TLS), monitoring & tuning. • Spring Boot: controllers/validation, exception handling, interceptors/filters, content negotiation, file upload/streaming, async request handling where needed. • Spring Data/JPA: entity modeling, transactions, isolation levels, pagination, query tuning; handles N+1/fetch strategy issues; sensible use of projections vs entities.. • Spring Security: OAuth2/OIDC integration patterns, method-level security, custom auth filters, CORS/CSRF, secure session/token handling. • API design: OpenAPI-first mindset, versioning strategy, idempotency, consistent error schema, backward compatibility. • Integration: consuming/producing APIs, resilient client patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breaker), request signing if applicable. • Build/deps: Photon/Maven/Gradle, BOMs, dependency hygiene, vulnerability remediation workflow. 2) Frontend (React) strong • React + TypeScript: component design, hooks, state management, form handling, routing. • UI quality: accessibility basics, performance, error boundaries, loading states. • API integration: robust data fetching/caching, pagination/infinite scroll, optimistic updates, consistent client-side error handling. • Testing: React Testing Library; e2e basics with Cypress/Playwright. 3) AWS & runtime - strong hands-on • Core AWS fluency (expected to have shipped production workloads): • Compute: ECS and EC2 autoscaling concepts • Networking: VPC, subnets, security groups, NACL basics, private vs public connectivity • Storage/data: S3; RDS/Aurora Postgress fundamentals; DynamoDB awareness even if not primary • Integration: SQS/SNS • Observability: Splunk & CloudWatch logs/metrics/alarms, log retention, dashboards • Identity & access: IAM roles/policies, least privilege, cross-account basics, secrets management patterns. • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK (one strongly); environment promotion strategy (dev/test/prod), parameterization, drift awareness. • Containerization: Docker images, health checks, resource limits, multi-stage builds. 4) Data & persistence - advanced • SQL: indexes, query plans, joins, transaction semantics; can tune slow query issues end-to-end (app + DB). • Migrations: Flyway/Liquibase discipline; zero-downtime schema evolution patterns. • Caching: Redis (ElastiCache) usage patterns, TTL design, cache stampede prevention, invalidation strategy. 5) Observability & production excellence - expert • Structured logging with correlation IDs; PII redaction discipline. • Metrics + SLO thinking: latency/error rate saturation signals; actionable alarms (not noise). • Tracing: Open Telemetry • Operability: runbooks, on-call readiness, meaningful postmortems with preventative actions. 6) Testing & quality - expert • Backend: JUnit5, Mockito, Spring test slices, Test containers; contract tests (Pact) preferred for service-to-service APIs. • Performance: basic load testing and interpreting results; capacity and tuning recommendations. • Security: SAST/dependency scans; remediates CVEs quickly and safely. 7) Security (practical, senior-level) - non-negotiable • AuthZ: RBAC/ABAC concepts; least privilege both in app and AWS IAM. • Secrets: no secrets in code/logs; uses managed secrets and rotation patterns. 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We are Looking for a Sr Full Stack Developer with AWS - Advanced - Columbus, OH
Position Type: Contract to Hire
Duration: 6+ Months
Java Full Stack - (Hands-on IC, 7+ yrs) Spring + React + AWS + Kafka
Java/Spring Boot/Microservices/API/Kafka + AWS – MUST HAVE
There is a small front end built in React – 10% front end would be perfect
Will be working with S3/Lambdas/ECS clusters/EC2 – Must have
Will be using Docker/Kubernetes to work within ECS – Must have
Will need to be strong in building API’s from scratch
No existing code or API’s – Will all be new from scratch
Looking for someone Sr, can work on their own, confident, good communication skills
Group is using Splunk/Dynatrace/Grafana – big plus
Backend (Java/Spring Boot) expert
Java: strong OOP + functional style, concurrency, collections, memory/perf awareness; can read thread dumps/heap dumps and profile hotspots..
Spring Boot: controllers/validation, exception handling, interceptors/filters, content negotiation, file upload/streaming, async request handling where needed.
Spring Data/JPA: entity modeling, transactions, isolation levels, pagination, query tuning; handles N+1/fetch strategy issues; sensible use of projections vs entities..
Spring Security: OAuth2/OIDC integration patterns, method-level security, custom auth filters, CORS/CSRF, secure session/token handling.
API design: OpenAPI-first mindset, versioning strategy, idempotency, consistent error schema, backward compatibility.
Integration: consuming/producing APIs, resilient client patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breaker), request signing if applicable.
Build/deps: Photon/Maven/Gradle, BOMs, dependency hygiene, vulnerability remediation workflow.
Frontend (React) strong
React + TypeScript: component design, hooks, state management, form handling, routing.

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8+ years experience preferred
Backend: JUnit5, Mockito, Spring test slices, Test containers; contract tests (Pact) preferred for service-to-service APIs.

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