Senior Java Developer

Role: Senior Java Developer


Location: San Francisco, CA


Duration: Long-Term contract


The candidate must travel 3 times a week to the client's office in the Bay area.


A local to Bay Area profile is needed.


Position Expectations:

• Be open to adopting new technologies and approaches on projects as they evolve,
• especially those relating to GenAI advancements.
• Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements
• and leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects.
• Participates as a software developer on small Agile teams, delivering software-based
• solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDB.
• Follow existing best practice migration playbooks where applicable and be prepared to
• innovate to fill in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific
• project.
• Actively participate in sprint grooming, planning, and showcases with ideas and
• suggestions.
• Take direction from the technical lead and project manager on projects, raising identified
• challenges and potential solutions to the team when applicable.
• Study the current state of each legacy application and the desired target state outlined
• by the customer and contribute to the planning, design, and solution from getting from
• source state to target state on each project.
• Be prepared to change project direction if customer or account team priorities change.

• 7+ years' of experience working as a software developer.
• Strong proficiency in Java.
• Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using
• SQL.
• Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures.
• History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile
• methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using
• Git version control.
• Nice-to-have skills
• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design
• approaches.
• Some experience and knowledge of Python.
• Some experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js.
• Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA.
• Extra bonus skills (if missing, we will provide rapid onboarding enablement on these):
• Some experience in nascent GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using
• OpenAI API with GPT LLMs
• Practical experience of using MongoDB