Senior Java Developer

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*This is an exempt position. Salary commensurate with experience*

Job Title: Senior Java Developer
Location: 40 North Pearl, Albany, NY - Hybrid
Duration: 31 Months (with potential for extension)
Start Date: estimated - 10/8/2026
W2 Hourly Rate: $65-$85/hour
Application Deadline: 9/3/2026

Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer who will support our NYS client.
This role will support modernization of the Child Support Management System (CSMS) by designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, batch processing solutions, and system integrations in a cloud-native environment.

The developer will collaborate with architects, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable services supporting child support case management operations.

Duties:

• Design, develop, and maintain Spring Boot microservices using domain-driven design and service decomposition best practices.
• Build and deploy loosely coupled, independently deployable services with well-defined API contracts.
• Develop scalable web applications, RESTful APIs, Spring Batch jobs, and integration services for the application platform.
• Develop and optimize Spring Batch jobs for high-volume data processing, reporting, and scheduled workflows.
• Implement data access layers using Hibernate/JPA against PostgreSQL databases.
• Manage inter-service communication using synchronous REST calls and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Collaborate with architects and business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions and participate in code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentoring
• Troubleshoot application issues and provide timely resolutions across distributed microservices.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements and deployment automation for microservices.
• Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Support system integration efforts, including third-party and inter-agency data exchanges, and perform other duties as assigned.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working on complex projects, including 2+ years in a leadership role as a Developer.
• 7+ years of experience of Java development experience with strong proficiency in Java 21, including records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads.
• 1+ years of experience designing and building microservices architectures, including service decomposition, API gateway patterns, service discovery, and distributed configuration.
• 7+ years of experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Spring Cloud.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on AWS using EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, and Lambda.
• Experience with Spring Batch for large-scale batch processing, Hibernate/JPA for ORM and database interaction.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs using proper versioning and contract-first design.

• Experience with inter-service communication patterns, including REST, messaging queues, and event-driven communication.

• Experience with government or public sector projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar, for microservices deployment pipelines, distributed system concerns - including fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.
• Hands-on experience with microservices patterns such as saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and API composition.
• Experience with service mesh technologies and API gateway solutions such as AWS API Gateway or Spring Cloud Gateway.
• Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean code practices.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/ECS for microservices containerization and orchestration.
• Knowledge of message-driven architecture using SQS, …