Java Engineer - Must be Local

Job Title: Java Engineer

Location: Dayton, OH

Duration: 12+ Months

Description;

Required Qualifications
7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Significant hands-on experience building and supporting production systems in Java.
Strong recent Java development experience, preferably with modern Java versions such as Java 11 or Java 17.
Experience with Maven, dependency management, build lifecycle, and automated software delivery practices.
Experience writing automated tests using JUnit and related Java testing tools.
Experience creating or maintaining integration test suites for production applications, batch jobs, or data-processing workflows.
Familiarity with performance testing concepts, including throughput, latency, resource usage, bottleneck identification, and baseline comparison.
Strong understanding of Java fundamentals, object-oriented design, collections, streams, error handling, clean code practices, and maintainable design.
Practical experience with data-oriented systems, such as batch processing, file processing, transformation logic, validation workflows, or pipeline support.
Working knowledge of SQL, including joins, filters, aggregations, data inspection, and troubleshooting query results.
Familiarity with common data formats such as CSV, JSON, XML, or Parquet.
Experience supporting software in production or production-like environments.
Working knowledge of cloud-hosted application environments, preferably Azure.
Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes concepts, deployment configuration, runtime logs, and resource-related troubleshooting.
Experience using Git-based development workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to investigate issues independently using logs, metrics, test output, job output, and source code.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly to engineering and non-engineering partners.