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Senior Java Software Engineer

YO IT Consulting
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/1/2026
  • Location: San Jose, CA
  • Hybrid: Hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Monday, Tuesday and Thursday)

Must Have

  • Backend
  • 5 years experience designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and microservices leveraging Java
  • Design, build, and support reliable applications on AWS cloud (EC2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway)

Nice To Have

  • Exposure to payments or fintech environments
  • Experience with payment systems, PCI compliance, security, and encryption
  • Familiarity with GitHub Copilot or similar AI coding tools
  • Master's degree in CS or related field

We’d Love To Chat If You Have

  • 5 years experience designing, developing and supporting scalable payment systems using Java, Spring Boot, AWS cloud services
  • Expertise in Java, microservices, messaging queues, event streaming, SQL/NoSQL, REST, CI/CD
  • Design, build and support highly reliable, low latency payment systems and APIs
  • Implement secure, compliant and fraud-resistant payment solutions
  • Develop robust integrations with third party payment providers leveraging messaging and events
  • Build ingestion pipelines, data lakes and AI/ML models for payment analytics
  • Instrument payment systems for monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot issues quickly in live production environments
  • Automate deployment, testing and infrastructure management using IaC tools
  • Work closely with product and business teams to drive payment innovation
  • Develop solutions leveraging leading technologies like cloud, containers, Kafka, AI/ML
  • Take full ownership of critical payment systems and mentor junior engineers
  • Promote scalability, reliability, security and engineering best practices
  • Provide technical guidance during design, code reviews and testing
  • Clearly communicate technical details and tradeoffs to stakeholders
  • Make critical recommendations influencing payment systems direction
  • Participate in team meetings and facilitate technical discussions

Required Skills

  • 5 years experience designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and microservices leveraging Java, Spring Boot
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field; Master's preferred
  • Expertise in Java, SQL/NoSQL, REST, messaging, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing
  • Experience with payment systems, PCI compliance, security, encryption highly preferred
  • Design, build, and support reliable applications on AWS cloud (EC2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway)
  • Implement scalable architectures using containers, Kubernetes.
  • Monitor, log and alert on application performance using CloudWatch, Datadog
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot issues efficiently in development and production environments
  • Hands-on experience developing and monitoring AI/ML models
  • Identify opportunities to apply AI/ML capabilities to solve problems
  • Advocate for engineering best practices around development, testing, deployment
  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers
  • Work cross-functionally with product, design, and leadership teams

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