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Senior Software Engineer – (Java / AWS) - San Jose, CA (Hybrid) - 1778
Location: San Jose, CA - Hybrid (3 days onsite: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
Type: Contract (3 months) – W2 only (U.S. Citizen or Green Card required)
Pay Rate: $125/hr. – w2 on – no c2c
Overview
Join a rapidly growing fintech environment focused on transforming how small and midsize businesses manage their finances. This role sits within a high-impact payments team responsible for building and scaling next-generation card issuing and payment processing capabilities across cloud-based platforms.
You’ll work alongside engineers, product managers, and architects to deliver seamless, secure, and scalable payment experiences—enabling businesses to pay and get paid faster across multiple channels.
What You’ll Do
Required Skills & Experience
Location: San Jose, CA - Hybrid (3 days onsite: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday)
Type: Contract (3 months) – W2 only (U.S. Citizen or Green Card required)
Pay Rate: $125/hr. – w2 on – no c2c
Overview
Join a rapidly growing fintech environment focused on transforming how small and midsize businesses manage their finances. This role sits within a high-impact payments team responsible for building and scaling next-generation card issuing and payment processing capabilities across cloud-based platforms.
You’ll work alongside engineers, product managers, and architects to deliver seamless, secure, and scalable payment experiences—enabling businesses to pay and get paid faster across multiple channels.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and support scalable, low-latency payment systems and APIs
- Develop microservices-based architectures using Java and Spring Boot
- Build and enhance card payment and issuing capabilities
- Integrate with third-party payment providers using messaging and event-driven systems
- Implement secure, compliant, and fraud-resistant payment solutions
- Develop data pipelines, data lakes, and AI/ML models for payment analytics
- Instrument systems with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environments
- Automate deployments and infrastructure using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business teams
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making
Required Skills & Experience
- 5 years of experience building and operating distributed systems and microservices
- Strong experience with Java and Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway)
- Solid understanding of:
- REST APIs
- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Messaging systems / event streaming (Kafka, etc.)
- CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Experience building and deploying applications using containers and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across development and production environments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (Master’s preferred)
Salary : $125