What are the responsibilities and job description for the Java Software Engineer position at AppLab Systems, Inc?
Position: Java Developer
Location: Redmond, WA (Onsite)
Type: Fulltime employment
Job Description
- Design, build, and operate backend services in Java (streaming engine, gateway APIs, auth/routing) that ingest Salesforce CDC/Platform Events into DynamoDB, Kinesis, and EventBridge.
- Own components end to end: design docs, code, tests, CI/CD pipelines, deployment, and on-call operations.
- Improve reliability, latency, and cost of a multi-tenant fleet where no single tenant can take down the system.
- Collaborate across auth, provisioning, and data-integrity teams; review code and raise the team's engineering bar.
Basic qualifications
- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in a modern OO language (Java preferred) and data structures/algorithms.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating production services.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with AWS (DynamoDB, Kinesis, EventBridge, Lambda, SQS) and distributed/event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with streaming/CDC pipelines, multi-tenant or cross-account architectures, and IaC (CDK/CloudFormation).
- Strong ownership, operational excellence, and a track record of raising quality through design and code review.