Job Description
Our client, an IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Java Developer w/AI experience for their Jersey City, NJ location.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Why Should You Apply?
Responsibilities:
- Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS-managed services, from design through production support.
- Drives architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns.
- Develops secure, high-quality, production-grade code; conducts thorough code reviews; sets and enforces engineering standards.
- Builds and maintains highly available and scalable services with strong operational excellence: reliability, performance, cost awareness, and maintainability.
- Implements and governs authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2, token validation, scopes/claims, and service-to-service security patterns.
- Establishes robust observability practices (structured logging, metrics, tracing), incident response readiness (runbooks).
- Evaluates vendor and internal solutions (including architectural fit, security posture, scalability, and operability) and guides adoption decisions
Requirements:
- Minimum 12+ years experience needed
- Top Required Skills: Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS, RestAPI, AI (Claude or Copilot), DevOps, Kafka
- Minimum 12+ years applied full stack engineering experience delivering and operating production systems; experience as a senior/lead capacity (technical leadership, design ownership).
- Java Spring Boot expertise: building APIs, dependency injection, validation, error handling, and performance tuning.
- GraphQL proficiency: schema design, resolvers, federation/composition patterns (where applicable), query performance (N+1 mitigation, caching), and API governance/versioning strategy.
- REST proficiency: OpenAPI-style contract design, pagination/filtering, idempotency, backward compatibility, and consumer-driven API evolution.
- OIDC/OAuth2: hands-on implementation with JWTs, refresh/access token flows, scopes/claims, secure session patterns, and least-privilege access control.
- AWS experience (hands-on): designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications; strong understanding of IAM, networking basics, and operational tooling (logs/metrics/alarms).
- Data layer expertise:
- AWS Aurora PostgreSQL: advanced SQL, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and transactional design.
- AWS Neptune: gremlin, graph modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations for graph workloads.
- Event-driven systems:
- AWS Kafka (MSK): topics/partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution, ordering/at-least-once semantics, idempotency, retries/DLQs, and operational monitoring.
- CI/CD and quality:
- Strong Git practices, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), code quality gates, and release confidence practices (feature flags, progressive rollout where applicable).
- AI-assisted engineering (MUST):
- Demonstrated proficiency using Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability (e.g., validating outputs, avoiding sensitive data leakage, and adhering to team standards).
- Years of Experience: 12.00 Years of Experience
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Jersey City, NJ |
| Industry | Management Consulting Services |
| Salary | $15–$59.29 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | https://www.iconma.com/ |
Benefits
401K, Employee Referral Program, Life Insurance
About Company
ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.
- Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
- Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
- Founded in 2000
- 2000+ Employees
The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.
Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Authenticationunmatched
- Cachingunmatched
- Cloud Applicationsunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Computer Securityunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Database Designunmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- Dependency Injectionunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Error Handlingunmatched
- Gitunmatched
- GitHubunmatched
- GraphQLunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Information Technology Consultingunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- OAuthunmatched
- Paginationunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- PostgreSQLunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Query Optimizationunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- Refactoringunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Security Architectureunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Spring Frameworkunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- Test Automationunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Unit Testunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
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