FS Java Restful API

Kforce has a client in Durham, NC that is seeking a FS Java Restful API. Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of MACAR modernization workstreams: ingestion, calculation, reporting, and API layers
• Drive architecture decisions (ADRs) for service decomposition, data access patterns, and API contracts
• Design and build RESTful services and Angular-based UIs that serve operations, business partners, and downstream consumers
• Establish engineering standards: code quality, testing strategy, CI/CD patterns, observability
• Develop Java-based microservices for calculation engines, data access routines, and business logic
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs that serve attribution analytics, reporting, and PADDS backward-compatibility layers
• Contribute to Angular front-end components for ops self-service, dynamic views, and configuration management
• Design for performance at scale: batch and near-real-time processing of large financial datasets
• Partner with Product Owner and Business Partners (OPS, RM) to translate domain requirements into technical solutions
• Work across squads to resolve cross-cutting concerns: data contracts, shared libraries, integration patterns
• Participate in architecture review boards, sprint reviews, and PI planning
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
• Champion test-driven development, automated testing (unit, integration, contract), and production readiness
• Drive down tech debt deliberately - identify, quantify, and propose resolution paths
• 10+ years hands-on Java development; deep expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or similar frameworks
• 3+ years Angular (v12+); component architecture, RxJS, state management, responsive design
• Strong grasp of concurrency, memory management, and JVM tuning
• Proven track record designing, building, and versioning RESTful services at scale. API-first design, OpenAPI/Swagger, contract testing, pagination, error handling patterns
• Ability to build ops-facing tools with usability focus
• Experience with batch processing frameworks (Spring Batch, custom schedulers)
• SQL proficiency; Comfort with large relational datasets; Bonus: time-series or financial data experience
• Practical experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda); Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) awareness
• Experience with Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, containerization (Docker), deployment automation; Observability: logging, metrics, alerting (CloudWatch, Splunk, Grafana)
• Excellent written and verbal communication; Ability to explain complex technical concepts to business partners, architects, and leadership
• Collaborative mindset; Thrives in cross-functional teams; Comfortable giving and receiving feedback; Elevates the team, not just individual output