*LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY* First preference: Palo Alto, CA2nd preference: Plano, TXJob title: Java DeveloperBill rate: 12+ (CA): $82/hr12+ (TX): $75/hrRole is onsiteClient address: 3223 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA8181 Communications Pkwy, Bldg B, Plano, TXYears of experience required: 12+Mandatory skills: Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, AWS, RestAPI, AI (Claude or Copilot), DevOps, KafkaJob responsibilities · Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using Java Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, and AWS-managed services, from design through production support. · Drives architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns. · Develops secure, high-quality, production-grade code; conducts thorough code reviews; sets and enforces engineering standards. · Builds and maintains highly available and scalable services with strong operational excellence: reliability, performance, cost awareness, and maintainability.· Implements and governs authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2, token validation, scopes/claims, and service-to-service security patterns. · Establishes robust observability practices (structured logging, metrics, tracing), incident response readiness (runbooks). · Evaluates vendor and internal solutions (including architectural fit, security posture, scalability, and operability) and guides adoption decisions.Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills · Minimum 12+ years applied full stack engineering experience delivering and operating production systems; experience as a senior/lead capacity (technical leadership, design ownership). · Java Spring Boot expertise: building APIs, dependency injection, validation, error handling, and performance tuning. · GraphQL proficiency: schema design, resolvers, federation/composition patterns (where applicable), query performance (N+1 mitigation, caching), and API governance/versioning strategy. · REST proficiency: OpenAPI-style contract design, pagination/filtering, idempotency, backward compatibility, and consumer-driven API evolution. · OIDC/OAuth2: hands-on implementation with JWTs, refresh/access token flows, scopes/claims, secure session patterns, and least-privilege access control. · AWS experience (hands-on): designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications; strong understanding of IAM, networking basics, and operational tooling (logs/metrics/alarms). · Data layer expertise: · AWS Aurora PostgreSQL: advanced SQL, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and transactional design. · AWS Neptune: gremlin, graph modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations for graph workloads. · Event-driven systems: · AWS Kafka (MSK): topics/partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution, ordering/at-least-once semantics, idempotency, retries/DLQs, and operational monitoring. · CI/CD and quality:· Strong Git practices, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), code quality gates, and release confidence practices (feature flags, progressive rollout where applicable). · AI-assisted engineering (MUST): · Demonstrated proficiency using Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation—while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability (e.g., validating outputs, avoiding sensitive data leakage, and adhering to team standards).

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Contacts:
Hiring manager: 980623@cognizant.com
MSP contact: Medicine Lee - Medicine.Lee@cognizant.com 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $7.25/hr - $80.00/hr.