42 java back end developer jobs at 21 companies in Illinois
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Java Backend Developer - Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$34k-$121k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Contract
Requires 10+ years of Java/J2EE development experience, Java and Spring expertise, microservices, REST/SOAP, databases, messaging, cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git, and Agile/Scrum skills.
Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, SOAP, Hibernate, JPA, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Git, Agile, Scrum, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, OAuth2, JWT, SQL, NoSQL
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Senior Backend Engineer - Java
United States or Tampa or Boston or Atlanta or New York City or Columbus or Chicago or Philadelphia or Raleigh or Charlotte or Minneapolis or Dallas or Washington D.C. or Austin or Miami or Newark
$152k-$194k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, relational databases; experience designing event-driven microservices, strong testing practices, AI-assisted development familiarity, BA/BS or equivalent.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, JPA/Hibernate 6, Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, TeamCity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GitHub, SonarQube
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Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's degree with 5+ years engineering experience, 4+ years Java, GCP and Postgres experience, experience with Anthropic Claude/LLMs, and U.S. citizenship able to obtain security clearance.
Java, Python, GCP, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Anthropic Claude, LLMs, RAG systems, AI coding assistants
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Senior Backend Engineer
Chicago or Milwaukee or Atlanta or Jacksonville
$123k-$209k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years of software engineering experience preferred, with Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, RESTful APIs, microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker experience.
Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, RESTful APIs, Spring Boot, Micronaut, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Jira, Confluence, Temporal, ActiveMQ, ReactJS
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Backend / Frontend Developer Intern
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OnsiteInternship
0+ YOEInternship seeking motivated, detail-oriented students skilled in frontend or backend development.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, REST APIs, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, AWS
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Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
Go, Java, Rust
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
Seattle or Milwaukee or Dallas or Columbus or Kirkland or Cincinnati or New York City or Cleveland or Oklahoma City or Austin or Albany or Chicago or St. Petersburg or Hartford or Pittsburgh or St. Louis or Miami or Sacramento or Raleigh or Minneapolis or Mountain View or Scottsdale or San Francisco or Morristown or Denver or Boston or Philadelphia or Des Moines or Overland Park or Los Angeles or Charlotte or Walnut Creek or Carmel or Houston or Arlington or Atlanta or Redmond or Bentonville or Beaverton or Nashville or Detroit or San Diego
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOEMinimum 5 years in knowledge graph hydration, ontology mapping, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, and REST API development; bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL APIs, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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Staff Back End Engineer, Trading
Chicago or New York City or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Culver City or Dallas
$200k-$285k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years building low-latency trading systems, BA/BS preferred, proficient with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, strong leadership and communication.
Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes
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Knowledge Engineer Manager - Back-end Engineer
United States or Albany or Arlington or Atlanta or Austin or Beaverton or Bentonville or Boston or Carmel or Charlotte or Chicago or Cincinnati or Cleveland or Columbus or Culver City or Denver or Des Moines or Detroit or Hartford or Houston or Irving or Kirkland or Miami or Milwaukee or Minneapolis or Morristown or Mountain View or Nashville or New York City or Oklahoma City or Overland Park or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or Raleigh or Redmond or Sacramento or San Diego or San Francisco or Scottsdale or Seattle or St. Louis or St. Petersburg or Walnut Creek
$80k-$294k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years in knowledge graphs, ontology mapping, R2RML, graph and relational databases, vector databases, Python or Java, REST APIs, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
RDF, OWL, SKOS, RDFS, SPARQL, R2RML, CSVW, SHACL, GraphDB, Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python, Java, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs, Apache NiFi, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Git, GraphQL, D3.js, Cytoscape.js, Terraform
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IS Technical Specialist (Backend Java Dev)
Columbus or Austin or Chicago or Dallas or Houston or Akron or Detroit or Indianapolis or Minneapolis or Cincinnati or Cleveland
$70k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE3+ MgmtBachelor's degree; 5+ years Java/WebSphere/REST API experience; Fuse, Spring Boot, GCP, Kafka, JSON; DevOps/CI/CD; container-based development; cloud deployment; strong SQL; microservices; leadership of development teams.
Java, WebSphere, REST APIs, Spring Boot, Fuse, GCP, Kafka, JSON, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Oracle, MySQL, Bigtable, MongoDB, Cloud SQL, GCP, JAX-RS, Swagger, Git, SVN, Maven, Terraform, BigQuery
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Senior Backend Software Engineer (USA Remote)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$112k-$187k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend development experience; strong Java preferred; experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB; serverless and microservices knowledge; Git and CI/CD experience; strong problem-solving skills.
AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Java, Python, Node.js, Git, GitHub Actions
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Lead Software Engineer, Back End
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$179k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's degree, 4+ years software engineering experience, 1+ year cloud experience, proficiency in Java/Python/SQL/Node/Go/Scala, experience with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS, strong communication and critical thinking.
Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
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Software Engineer (Backend-Java)
Alabama or Arizona or California or Colorado or Connecticut or District of Columbia or Delaware or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Louisiana or Maine or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Nevada or North Carolina or New Jersey or New York or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Texas or Tennessee or Utah or Virginia or Washington or Wisconsin
$128k-$136k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years in agile teams, Java, Spring Boot, cloud-native microservices, RESTful APIs, relational databases, DevOps, AWS, and strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Postgres, JDBC, Hibernate, Jenkins CI/CD, AWS, LinkedIn Learning
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Senior/Staff/Principal Backend Engineer, Platform & Data Ingestion
San Francisco or New York City or Arizona or California or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Louisiana or Massachusetts or Minnesota or North Carolina or New Jersey or Nevada or New York or Ohio or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Washington or District of Columbia
$150k-$236k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years building scalable APIs, microservices, and high-volume ETL; experience with Scala/Elixir or typed languages, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, OCR/document parsing, SQL and data modeling; strong communication skills.
Scala, Elixir, Java, C#, C++, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, OCR, Postgres, MySQL, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, GCP, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Google PubSub, TypeScript, Angular, React
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Backend / Platform Developer Consultant (Temporal & Kubernetes)
Chicago or United States
RemoteFull Time
Experienced in building and operating JVM services, Temporal workflows, Kafka event streams, Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, and platform engineering; strong Java and systems-engineering skills.
Java, JVM, Spring Boot, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Temporal, Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Avro, Protobuf, MSK, Confluent, GraphQL, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, OpenTofu, Crossplane, ACK, controller-runtime, kubebuilder, Helm, OCI, External Secrets Operator, Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, SPIFFE, SPIRE, SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, JWT, gRPC, REST
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (Golang, Java, AWS)
Chicago or McLean
$209k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE1+ MgmtBachelor’s degree, 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, 1+ year of cloud computing experience, and experience with Java, Go, Python, AWS, databases, containers, and microservices.
Go, Java, Python, SQL, Node.js, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Open Source RDBMS, NoSQL, Agile
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (Go, Python, Java)
McLean or Chicago
$209k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE1+ MgmtBachelor’s degree, 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, 1+ year of cloud computing experience, and expertise in backend development, microservices, and distributed systems.
Go, Python, Java, SQL, Node, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, GCP, RDBMS, NoSQL, Agile
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Software Engineer: Backend
United States or Chicago
$105k-$130k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3–5 years of backend, platform, or systems engineering experience; Java or Kotlin; Spring Boot; production REST APIs; relational database queries and migrations; and distributed-service troubleshooting.
Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JUnit, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis, RabbitMQ, Datadog, GitLab Ultimate, SonarQube, Wiz, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code, Go, Confluence
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend FinPlatform
New York City or San Francisco or Salt Lake City or Los Angeles or Seattle or Austin or Washington or Philadelphia or San Diego or Chicago or Atlanta or Australia or Canada or South America
$146k-$215k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, 4+ years with Java, experience with backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, AWS, and distributed teams.
Java, Spring, Gradle, JUnit, JVM, AWS, EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, git, DataDog, Snowflake, CDK, Terraform
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Lead Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$134k-$224k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building scalable software; 5+ years cloud-native experience; experience with containerization, distributed systems, React/Next.js front end, Java/Kotlin back end, Kafka, PostgreSQL/Snowflake, CI/CD and collaboration skills.
React, Next.js, Java, Kotlin, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Git, CI/CD, Spring Boot
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