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Sr/Lead Java Engineer

Career Mentors, LLC · Chicago, IL, United States

Software DevelopmentLeadExternal listingcontract23 days ago

About The Role

Candidates: Local / Nearby candidates preferred

Employment Type: W2

Hourly Payrate: $70 - $80

We are looking for a Senior / Lead Java Engineer who can drive development end-to-end, lead the team, and mentor junior developers while remaining hands-on with coding and architecture. This role will involve 60–70% development and 30–40% team leadership activities .

Primary Skills

Java Development

  • Spring / Microservices Architecture
  • Strong experience with API development and integrations

Kafka

AWS Cloud

  • End-to-End CI/CD experience
  • Docker & Kubernetes (hands-on with containerized applications)
  • Jenkins experience is a plus

Nice to Have

  • Frontend exposure (plus, not mandatory)
  • Java modernization experience
  • Payments / Financial applications experience (highly preferred)
  • DevOps mindset / experience

Role Highlights

  • Lead and guide the engineering team
  • Mentor junior developers
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of microservices-based applications
  • Work on high-scale payment systems processing $6–8 trillion daily

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