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Lead Java Software Engineer

Mojo Trek
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/17/2026

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Mojo Trek, an Inc. 5000 company, delivers an unparalleled recruitment experience, grounded in transparency and integrity. From midsize technology innovators to Fortune 50 powerhouse corporations, we help our clients build technology teams that make a difference, push the change forward, and develop software critical to their success.

Our Client is building a world-class platform to host a wide range of applications. It's a state-of-the-art digital platform that encompasses mobile, web, cloud, and distributed computing systems. Their solutions are designed to improve productivity, profitability, and safety, and help communities and economies grow in an environmentally sustainable way.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


  • Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
  • Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
  • Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
  • Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
  • Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
  • Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
  • Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
  • Mentors junior developers.
  • Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
  • Leads development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams
  • Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results
  • Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
  • Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
  • Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by management from time to time.


QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required
  • 10 years experience of designing and developing software applications in Java or at least 5years experience in Java with Master's degree.
  • Eight years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java or at least five years of experience in Java with Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Developing software applications using relational and Nosql databases.
  • Knowledge of application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
  • Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
  • Knowledge of datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
  • Knowledge of other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, etc.
  • Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
  • Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
  • Technical Skills:

    • Strong Java 11
    • Backend development is a MUST
    • SpringBoot framework
    • Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ApacheActiveMQ
    • RESTful web services
    • AWS knowledge - IAM, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API stack, SQS, SNS, KMS
    • API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
    • Slick - SQL queries
    • DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins
    • High Availability and Reliable Solutions
    • Some architecture experience

Salary : $60 - $70

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