The Role
Leads the design, development, testing, and maintenance of full-stack applications using Java, Spring, React, databases, and APIs. Owns medium- to large-scale features through production, contributes to architecture, reviews code and designs, and improves observability, performance, reliability, and resiliency. Participates in incident response and root-cause analysis while mentoring engineers and collaborating across Product, Design, QA, and engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
City: Burbank, CA OR Santa Monica, CA
Onsite / Hybrid / Remote: Hybrid, 3–4 days onsite
Duration: 9 Months to start with
Rate Range: Up to $103.5/hr in W2
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except OPT, CPT, H1B
This is a hands-on full-stack engineering role requiring recent frontend development experience. Candidates must have actively built or maintained React-based user interfaces within the last two years, in addition to strong Java and Spring backend experience.
Must Have:
- At least five years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring.
- Recent hands-on React development experience within the last two years.
- Experience building and maintaining user-facing web applications.
- Experience with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Strong SQL and relational database experience, including MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services.
- Experience developing both frontend applications and backend services.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software solutions.
- Build and maintain React-based user interfaces and backend services.
- Develop frontend features that integrate with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Own medium- to large-scale features from design through production.
- Contribute to frontend, backend, and system architecture decisions.
- Write production-ready code and participate in code and design reviews.
- Improve application performance, observability, reliability, and resiliency.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate with Product, UX Design, QA, and engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of full-stack architecture, client-server communication, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience with modern frontend development using React.
- Experience with cloud-native development, stateless services, horizontal scaling, and observability.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems with limited guidance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience with TypeScript.
- Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
- Experience with AWS or another cloud platform.
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon SNS/SQS.
- Experience in advertising technology or media-processing workflows.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Amazon Q Developer.
Skills Required
- At least five years of software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring
- Experience with object-relational mapping frameworks
- Experience building full-stack applications using React or a comparable frontend framework
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience developing and consuming RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong understanding of client-server communication, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Knowledge of cloud-native development, stateless services, horizontal scaling, and observability
- Strong SQL and database development experience
- Ability to evaluate downstream impacts across interconnected systems
- Ability to solve complex technical problems with limited guidance
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects
- Experience with AWS or another cloud platform
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon SNS/SQS
- Experience in advertising technology or media-processing workflows
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Amazon Q Developer
- Work authorization as a U.S. citizen, green card holder, or valid EAD holder; OPT, CPT, and H-1B excluded
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The Company
What We Do
Often, the biggest barrier between setting business objectives and achieving them is talent. Finding technically qualified people when you need them is hard enough. Finding technically qualified people who are the best fit for your organization is tougher. You need a staffing partner with the right expertise who can find the right talent in the right time frame, because your project can’t wait. That’s where we come in. aKube Inc is committed to leveraging its corporate values and operating model to achieve the highest level of performance and respect within the industry. We have developed a highly efficient delivery model for supporting a wide array of clients with expertise in supporting high-volume contingent worker programs.
