Senior Java Developer / Albany - NY / Onsite 3 - 4 Days a Week

Job Description

Job DescriptionBenefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Senior Java Developer – CSMS (Child Support Management System)
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer to join the CSMS modernization team. This role will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical microservices supporting child support case management operations. The ideal candidate has strong experience building loosely coupled, independently deployable services within a cloud-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices using domain-driven design and service decomposition best practices.
• Develop scalable web applications, REST APIs, Spring Batch jobs, and integration services.
• Build well-defined API contracts and implement synchronous REST and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Develop and optimize Spring Batch jobs for high-volume processing and scheduled workflows.
• Implement data access using Hibernate/JPA and PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with architects, business analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, enforce development standards, and mentor junior developers.
• Troubleshoot distributed application and microservices issues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Support third-party and inter-agency system integrations.

Mandatory Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional Java development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java 21, including records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads.
• Proven experience designing and developing microservices architectures.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring MVC, Data, Security, and Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Batch for large-scale data processing.
• Strong Hibernate/JPA and relational database experience, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs, including API versioning and contract-first design.
• Experience with inter-service communication using REST, messaging queues, and/or event-driven patterns.
• Experience deploying and operating microservices on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, and Lambda.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, Git, and collaborative development.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including fault tolerance, circuit breakers, retries, and observability.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working on government, state, federal, or other public-sector IT projects.
• Experience with microservices patterns such as Saga, CQRS, event sourcing, and API composition.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, and service mesh technologies.
• Knowledge of SQS, SNS, Kafka, API Gateway, or Spring Cloud Gateway.
• Experience with centralized logging and distributed tracing tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Zipkin, or OpenTelemetry.
• Knowledge of Terraform, CloudFormation, OAuth2/OpenID Connect, Flyway, or Liquibase.

Flexible work from home options available.