Top Senior Java Developer Jobs

Responsible for leading applications systems analysis and programming activities, developing systems, enhancing application designs, and managing mid-level developers while ensuring compliance with regulations.

Senior Java developer to design, build and lead large-scale, high-performance credit risk applications. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure, monitoring/logging, security practices, troubleshoot complex issues, and produce documentation for systems and processes.

The Backend Java Developer Lead Analyst leads application systems analysis and programming, integrating functions and resolving high-impact problems to meet goals while ensuring adherence to architecture principles.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java applications and microservices on an Agile team. Implement RESTful APIs, integrate with SQL/NoSQL databases, use Git-based version control, and follow SDLC and peer-review processes. Support program deliveries, work on 2-week sprints, and coordinate with cross-functional teams. Requires active Top Secret clearance and occasional travel (~10%).

Design, develop, test, and maintain Java-based mission software for NASIC. Implement new features, troubleshoot defects and performance issues, integrate with services, produce technical documentation, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams while operating in secure environments (SCIF).

Develop, integrate, test and maintain desktop/web applications and Java microservices; build and maintain CI/CD pipelines; collaborate with SW, HW and test teams; identify technical risks and report to leadership; work in an Agile, process-oriented environment. On-site in San Diego, requires Top Secret clearance and up to 25% travel.

Design and develop high-throughput payment microservices and APIs using Java and Spring. Build reactive, event-driven integrations (Kafka/RabbitMQ), implement cloud-native AWS solutions, and deliver end-to-end payment API products, SDKs, and client libraries while contributing to roadmap and API documentation.

Design, develop, and modernize software by translating legacy mainframe code (COBOL/ASM/JCL/Copybooks) into Java microservices. Support UI integration, relational and hierarchical databases, batch and real-time processing, CI/CD, cloud-native and ZT/ICAM integration, and use AI/ML tools to assist translation and optimization. Work supports pre-production, testing, and integration activities.

Develop and maintain Java Spring Boot microservices, write automated tests and API validations, debug and optimize performance, collaborate with architects, front-end developers and product owners, participate in Agile ceremonies, document designs, perform peer code reviews, and support deployments and release activities.

Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services using Spring/Spring Boot. Build RESTful APIs, write automated tests, use Git/Git Flow, Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka and SQL. Follow modern DevOps practices and collaborate cross-functionally to support payment/FinTech solutions.

Lead development of full-stack Java/Angular applications for DOT use. Analyze requirements, estimate work, write and unit-test code, maintain source control, support CI/CD and container deployments, mentor juniors, participate in agile sprints, and document designs for long-lived production systems.

Lead and mentor a team of Java/J2EE developers to enhance and maintain Internet/Intranet business applications. Provide design and implementation leadership using WebSphere and JBoss, refine Java/J2EE standards and testing, implement integrations and packaged solutions, and collaborate with technical staff and business stakeholders to gather requirements and resolve issues.

Lead design and development of low-latency, high-performance Java microservices for electronic equities trading. Implement complex trading logic, optimize performance, conduct design reviews, partner with product and quant teams, improve testing and CI/CD pipelines, and maintain monitoring, reconciliation, and recovery capabilities while ensuring regulatory and operational risk controls.

Develop and maintain the Java client library and high-performance C/C++ server applications. Implement message parsers and feed handlers, optimize for extreme throughput and low latency, build tools for petabyte-scale processing, collaborate on build/deploy/CI practices, monitor uptime, and support smooth feature rollouts.

Develop and maintain core Elasticsearch infrastructure and shared platform features. Design scalable APIs, solve performance and concurrency issues, improve observability and CI/CD, automate developer workflows, lead cross-team projects, support complex operational investigations, and use AI to accelerate development and debugging.

Design, build, and improve Elasticsearch distributed-systems components for scalable, concurrent, and consistent indexing. Maintain cluster coordination for performance and resilience, push system scale limits, investigate performance and concurrency issues, support operations/support engineers, and lead projects involving multiple engineers from design through delivery.

The role involves improving Elasticsearch's distributed components, maintaining cluster coordination systems, and addressing complex issues to optimize performance and scalability.

Lead design and development of enterprise software solutions using Java and Cursor AI. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, define architecture and roadmaps, implement cloud-native, microservices, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices, and collaborate across product and engineering teams to deliver performant, secure systems.

Lead design and delivery of custom cloud-based software solutions. Implement and mentor teams on Java web services and Spring Boot applications, leverage cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), ontology and semantic search, NoSQL/graph databases (MongoDB/Neo4J), ORM (Hibernate), build and CI tools (Maven, Jenkins/TeamCity), and TDD/BDD practices.

Lead design and delivery of custom cloud-native Java applications and services. Provide technical leadership, build indexed searchable interfaces for media assets, implement containerized solutions, and apply CI/CD, TDD/BDD, and cloud infrastructure automation practices to meet client requirements.

Lead Java Full Stack Engineer to architect, develop, and operate enterprise-grade, cloud-native web applications and distributed systems. Responsible for end-to-end design, coding, deployment, observability, and collaboration with product, DevOps, and engineering teams in an Agile environment to deliver secure, performant solutions.

Design, build, and maintain low-latency, high-availability Java backend services and REST APIs. Troubleshoot production issues, contribute to distributed microservice architectures, and participate in on-call rotations while working with Bots & Automation to build a bot runtime platform.

Design and develop cloud-native RESTful and event-driven microservices using Java 17+ and Spring Boot. Build real-time integrations with devices/APIs, use Kafka/RabbitMQ for event streaming, containerize with Docker and Kubernetes, deploy on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), work with PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, implement OAuth2/JWT security, and contribute to architecture, CI/CD, and IoT connected services.

Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring-based microservices and web applications; write clean, tested code; collaborate with architects and teams to resolve defects; deploy scalable containerized solutions on Kubernetes/Docker; integrate with messaging systems and tune Oracle/SQL performance; participate in CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Design, build, and optimize a multi-region, highly-available Java/Scala microservices data pipeline processing thousands of messages/sec. Improve performance, implement fraud-detection pipelines with ML (Kafka/Kafka Streams), deploy to multi-cloud Kubernetes, and push frequent production releases to maintain five-nines uptime.