Key skills
JavaNoSQLKafkaAngularSpring BootSpringAzureGoogle CloudPub/SubRESTfulAgileCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Job Title: Sr Backend Developer
Location: Chicago/NY/Dallas (Onsite)
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and design patterns.
- 3+ years building and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
- Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong skills with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring release readiness.
- Experience supporting production deployments and performing postdeployment validation.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.
- High level of ownership and ability to operate with minimal guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare domains (PBM, NCPDP, HIPAA).
- Background in roles combining development + release/operations.
- Experience with Application & Performance Monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of Pub/Sub, Kafka, or other event-driven messaging systems.
- Exposure to SRE/DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
Education
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.