Lead Java Backend Developer

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🕒 September 3

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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3Core Systems, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

👥 HR Tech

B2B • Consulting • HR Tech

3Core Systems, Inc. is an SAP Silver Partner specializing in the delivery of integrated Digital HR solutions. The company focuses on optimizing SAP SuccessFactors for HR organizations, helping them solve immediate pain points while transforming their business objectives to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs). 3Core Systems provides a range of services including implementation, project management, consulting, and application management support, tailored to improve the efficiency of HR processes and enhance overall performance.

📋 Description

• Provides technical leadership and delivery ownership for a team of software engineers building and operating scalable cloud-native applications on AWS • Drives architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and solution design across Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch platforms, CI/CD, observability, and AWS infrastructure • Collaborates with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions • Mentors engineers and improves development processes • Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications • Establishes technical direction and architectural standards • Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives • Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability • Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices • Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement • Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals • Drives successful delivery of complex cloud-native solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is a must • 10+ years’ experience in this capacity • 5+ years in a lead role • Experience with Java • Experience with Spring Boot • Experience with microservices • Experience with REST APIs • Experience with AWS, including ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager • Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch • Experience with Docker • Experience with CI/CD • Experience with GitHub • Knowledge of distributed systems • Knowledge of cloud architecture • Knowledge of observability • Knowledge of DevOps • Knowledge of infrastructure as code • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases • Knowledge of event-driven architecture • Experience with API integration • Experience with performance optimization • Experience with AI-assisted development tools • Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and coaching, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, ownership, conflict resolution, adaptability, and ability to influence cross-functional teams

🏖️ Benefits

• 12 months contract duration • 100% remote option • Travel involved when needed