Full Stack Developer

Kforce has a client seeking a Hybrid Full Stack Developer to join their team in Alpharetta, GA. Summary: In this role, you'll design and implement backend services that integrate with Azure OpenAI and Azure Speech, securely handle media in the cloud, and power intelligent, real time data extraction for our users. You'll work closely with product, frontend, and cloud teams to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AI features in a modern Java/Azure environment. Duties:

• Design, and lead the development of enterprise-scale applications
• Define and implement scalable microservices architectures supporting media processing, AI-driven workflows, and real-time integrations
• Lead the design and development of services that handle video, audio, image, and document ingestion, processing, and storage
• Develop integrations with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, and other AI/ML services for transcription, text-to-speech, document intelligence, and advanced data extraction capabilities
• Design secure, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions leveraging Azure services
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices for security, observability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with teams to deliver end-to-end solutions aligned with business objectives
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to development teams
• Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and technical decision-making processes
• Ensure compliance with security, governance, privacy, and regulatory requirement
• Drive performance optimization, scalability improvements, and operational excellence for both real-time and batch processing workloads
• Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to establish CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and DevSecOps best practices
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including enterprise application design and development
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, including designing and implementing microservices architectures
• 8+ years of experience with React and modern front-end architectures, including component-based design and state management frameworks
• Strong experience with Node.js, RESTful APIs, API gateways, and event-driven architectures
• Proven experience architecting and delivering cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure and/or AWS
• Hands-on expertise with Azure services including Storage, App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Cognitive Services, and containerized platforms
• Experience integrating AI/ML platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Document Intelligence, Computer Vision, or similar technologies
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, and high-availability design
• Experience designing secure applications, authentication and authorization frameworks, identity management, and data protection strategies
• Expertise in modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, observability, and DevSecOps
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively engage developers, architects, product managers, business analysts, QA teams, and executive leadership
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to design innovative and efficient solutions
• Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Agile development methodologies
• Ability to balance strategic architectural thinking with hands-on technical execution