Java Engineer - Finance Inventory (Remote | CDT)

Title : Java Engineer – Finance Inventory
Location : Remote (Must work Central Time Hours)
Job Type : Contract (6 Months)
Compensation : $52.63 - $86.46/hr
Industry: Retail
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About the Role
We are partnering with a leading enterprise retail organization to hire an Engineer – Finance Inventory to support a high-impact finance technology team. This team is responsible for inventory valuation and gross margin systems that ensure accurate financial reporting across e-commerce, retail stores, supply chain, and backend platforms.
This role focuses on building and modernizing applications that process high-volume, real-time financial data. You will play a key role in transitioning legacy systems to modern technologies while maintaining strong financial controls and system stability in a complex, high-transaction environment. The team supports hundreds of millions of transactions daily and collaborates across the enterprise to ensure financial accuracy. Job Description
As an Engineer – Finance Inventory, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable applications that support real-time financial and inventory processing. You will contribute to modernization initiatives while ensuring existing systems remain stable and reliable within the finance technology ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and web applications
• Develop solutions that support real-time processing of inventory and financial transactions
• Contribute to modernization efforts by migrating legacy systems to current technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups and sprint planning
• Own development tasks from design, testing, and deployment through production support
• Implement robust, testable, and maintainable code
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and stabilize production systems and integrations

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Strong experience in back-end development using Java
• Hands-on experience building distributed systems using Kafka for event-driven data movement
• Experience with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL, including storage and performance considerations
• Front-end development experience using React
• Experience working with Groovy in backend environments
• Familiarity with modern frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Experience designing and building scalable, high-performance applications supporting large transaction volumes
• Ability to manage full software development lifecycle, from design to production deployment
• Experience working within Agile teams and participating in standard development ceremonies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with additional JVM languages such as Kotlin
• Exposure to Cassandra or other distributed storage/caching solutions
• Experience supporting or leading modernization initiatives for legacy systems
• Familiarity with enterprise financial systems, inventory platforms, or retail/e-commerce environments
• Understanding of financial data processing, controls, and reconciliation in large-scale systems

Benefits
Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary:  How to Apply
Take the first step on your new career path!  To submit yourself for consideration for this role, simply click the apply button and complete our mobile-friendly online application. Once we’ve reviewed your application details, a recruiter will reach out to you with next steps! Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!