Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services
Position: Java Developer (Spring-Boot Microservices developer)
Location: Seattle, WA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- This role is essential for designing, implementing, and deploying scalable software solutions that meet customer requirements and support high availability environments.
- The role involves collaborating with engineers to develop software components using technologies such as virtualization, microservices, software-defined networking, distributed messaging (Kafka), and data persistent.
- It requires independent judgment to resolve technical issues and make recommendations for software design and implementation. Success is measured by the ability to deliver effective software solutions that integrate with system protocols and meet business and technical requirements.
- The work impacts organizational capabilities by enabling advanced software systems that improve operational efficiency and customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Core Development:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Java applications and microservices (Spring Boot / Spring Framework)
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code following SOLID principles and team engineering standards
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint planning
- Debug and resolve production issues, including performance tuning and root cause analysis
- Work with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Build and consume REST/gRPC APIs; work with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong Java experience with Spring Boot and building RESTful APIs / microservices
- Solid understanding of API design, HTTP protocols, and backend architecture patterns
- Experience with databases (SQL + JPA/Hibernate; NoSQL is a plus)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of security (Spring Security, OAuth2, JWT) and API best practices
- Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito) and API testing tools
- Proficient in leveraging AI tools to enhance day-to-day development productivity and code quality
- Communication (Required)
- Customer Service (Required)
- Technical Writing (Required)
Required Qualifications:
- 3 6 years of professional Java development experience
- Strong proficiency in Java 11+ and Spring Boot/Spring Framework
- Experience with RESTful API design and microservices architecture
- Solid understanding of SQL and database design
- Practical, hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) in a real development workflow
- Familiarity with unit/integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)
- Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes
- Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
- Prior experience in Agile/Scrum environments
Nice to Have:
- Contributions to internal AI tooling adoption or engineering productivity initiatives
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana).
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $46.32 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Apache Kafkaunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Customer Experienceunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Database Designunmatched
- Database Technologyunmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Dockerunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Gitunmatched
- HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol)unmatched
- Hibernateunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- JUnitunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Java Persistence API (JPA)unmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Messaging Middlewareunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- MongoDBunmatched
- MySQLunmatched
- NoSQLunmatched
- OAuthunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Oracle SQLPlusunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- PostgreSQLunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Protocol Designunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- RabbitMQunmatched
- Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SQL Databasesunmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)unmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Designunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Splunkunmatched
- Spring Frameworkunmatched
- Sprint Planningunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- System Operationsunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Test Toolsunmatched
- Unit Testunmatched
- Virtualizationunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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