Lead Java Developer

Position 1 -

#1 Java Engineering Lead (Retail & Pricing)

Long Contract

Rocklin, CA (4 days per week Onsite)

Note: Visa Independent Resources are required

Recommended staffing posture: Onsite Lead

Role Summary

Own Pricing Management Applications / Services and make pricing architecture, releases, and cross-domain alignment resilient and employee-led.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Java platform strategy across pricing rules, service interfaces, publication flows, and downstream consumers.

• Ensure pricing changes are accurate, explainable, observable, and operationally supportable.

• Partner with Merch, PCS, and adjacent engineering teams on demand planning, data quality, and release readiness.

• Drive technical direction, staffing transitions, and domain documentation so the team is not dependent on single contractors.

Core Qualifications

• 10 years in software engineering with strong service-platform and data-flow design experience.

• Comfort owning rule-driven systems, APIs, integration-heavy domains, and stakeholder-heavy releases.

• Strong communication with business, architecture, and operations partners.

Agentic / AI-Enabled Expectations

• Adopt AI-assisted scenario analysis for pricing rule changes and release impact reviews.

• Automate documentation, dependency mapping, and regression risk identification for Java changes.

• Use agentic copilots to accelerate backlog refinement and test coverage without losing pricing control integrity.

Position 2 -

Java Engineering Lead (Retail & Payments)

Long Contract

Rocklin, CA (4 days per week Onsite)

Note: Visa Independent Resources are required

Recommended staffing posture: Onsite Lead

Role Summary

Lead Enterprise Payment Services for SCMS and put architecture, delivery, and risk decisions under durable employee-led ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own JAVA roadmap, architecture, and delivery across payment, reconciliation, exception handling, and downstream integrations.

• Set standards for reliability, auditability, and change control in a high-transaction supply-chain environment.

• Partner with Product, Finance, ESRE, and operations stakeholders to prioritize work and manage peak readiness.

• Coach engineers, manage vendors / contractors, and drive the transition from contractor-led execution to internal control points.

Core Qualifications

• 10 years building or operating enterprise platforms; 3 years in staff / lead / manager roles.

• Strong background in microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, observability, and production engineering.

• Experience in payments, settlements, reconciliation, or other financially sensitive transactional domains.

Agentic / AI-Enabled Expectations

• Establish AI-assisted design, coding, review, and release guardrails for JAVA services.

• Use agentic workflows for runbook generation, change impact analysis, and incident triage support.

• Measure productivity gains without weakening controls, security, or audit readiness.