Senior Java Developer

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🕒 February 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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South Geeks

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11 - 50 employees

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Recruitment • SaaS • Enterprise

South Geeks is a company that excels at building high-performing software development teams by bridging Latin American talent with global opportunities, enabling successful partnerships. With a strong emphasis on putting people first, South Geeks provides a customized approach to connecting skilled software developers with clients, ensuring the best culture and talent fit for collaborative team building. They are committed to long-term relationships, making ongoing efforts to help team members grow and succeed professionally. South Geeks prides itself on a low attrition rate due to its supportive and rewarding work environment, and its focus on strong communication and in-demand capabilities. They employ mid to senior-level software developers, testers, data scientists, and DevOps specialists, continuously developing their skills under the guidance of performance coaches. South Geeks is known for its people-focused, curated approach to staffing, making both clients and staff feel valued and supported. With a leadership team from Latin America, they truly understand and respect the culture and the people they work with, enhancing the overall experience for both engineers and clients.

📋 Description

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve data-quality issues in large-scale backend systems • Design and implement Java-based repair and correction pipelines for high-volume datasets • Debug and fix issues in existing Java codebases supporting distributed systems • Build safe, idempotent jobs to correct data without introducing regressions • Leverage AWS services such as S3, SQS, and Lambda to support queue-driven and batch workflows • Analyze system behavior related to performance, concurrency, and memory usage • Clearly communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Work in an iterative, fast-moving environment diagnosing issues across distributed systems and ensuring data correctness across millions of records

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience developing Java in large-scale backend systems • Strong debugging, triage, and data analysis skills • Experience working with distributed systems and high-volume processing pipelines • Hands-on experience with AWS, including services such as S3, SQS, and Lambda • Solid understanding of performance optimization, concurrency, and memory-efficient design patterns • Ability to design reliable, repeatable data repair workflows • Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces and deriving practical solutions • Strong communication skills, with the ability to summarize complex technical findings clearly • Experience working with genealogical, historical, or highly interrelated datasets (nice to have) • Familiarity with queue-driven architectures and event-based processing (nice to have) • Experience improving data integrity in legacy or long-lived systems (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Long-term projects • 100% remote work • Payment in USD • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Work-from-home & training reimbursement • English lessons • Technical training • Career coaching