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Java Engineer

Career Mentors, LLC
Chicago, IL Contractor
POSTED ON 3/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026

We’re Hiring: Java Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL (5 Days Onsite)
Candidates: Local / Nearby candidates preferred
Employment Type: W2

We are looking for a skilled Java Engineer with strong experience in modern backend development and cloud-native technologies to support high-volume payment applications processing $6–8 trillion daily.

Experience Required:
Minimum 5–6 years of enterprise development experience

Required Skills:
Java Development
Spring / Microservices Architecture
Strong experience with APIs (API design & development)
Kafka
AWS Cloud
End-to-End CI/CD knowledge
Docker & Kubernetes (Hands-on experience)
Jenkins experience is a plus

Nice to Have:
Application Modernization experience
Payments / Financial systems experience (Highly preferred)
DevOps exposure



Equal Employment Opportunity

TopTechTalent.ai believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities. TopTechTalent.ai recruits, hires, trains, promotes, disciplines and provides other conditions of employment without regard to a person's race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, or expression, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, marital status or other classifications protected under law or Company policy. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for team members' disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.

The government requires TopTechTalent.ai to maintain information on those who seek employment with the company, including their race and sex. Accordingly, to help us comply with this requirement, we encourage you to provide us with the following self-identification information. However, submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not affect your opportunity for employment or terms and conditions of employment, if hired. If you do submit this information, it will be kept confidential and will be used in the compilation of data for reporting requirements.

🚫 Third-party recruiters, please do not reach out for this role.

Salary : $67 - $73

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