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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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Java Backend Software Engineer III - Cassandra / Kubernetes
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$114k-$155k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ years software engineering experience; strong Java and Spring Boot backend skills; experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, distributed databases (Cassandra, CockroachDB) and relational DBs (Oracle, PostgreSQL); system design and operational stability; experience with enterprise AI-assisted development tools.
Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL
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Sr. Backend Engineer – Java/Spring Boot | Onshore
Texas or Chicago or New York City
$40k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Contract
Photon: A global digital modernization firm delivering enterprise-grade backend and platform engineering services.
7+ YOE7+ years backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot, event-driven systems using Kafka, PostgreSQL, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience, CI/CD and containerization, strong testing and debugging skills.
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure
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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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Backend Engineer, Credit Decisions
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$173k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor's degree and 6+ years software development experience; proficiency across stack with 2+ of Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, SQL; experience with Spark, IDEs, AWS, distributed systems, cloud services (gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes); strong engineering and collaboration skills.
Java, Ruby, Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, IDE, AWS, gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes
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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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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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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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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 Java Developer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
HybridContract
12+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent experience, 8+ years Java/backend experience, 3+ years event-driven systems, 4+ years AWS, Apache Camel experience, hands-on AI/GenAI implementation, observability tooling, strong coding and problem-solving skills.
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, AmazonMQ, Dynatrace, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Twilio, LLM
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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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Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - NT Connect
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$100k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend software development; JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin); REST/WebSocket APIs; Kubernetes/GCP; security best practices; strong problem-solving; AI tooling experience.
Java, Scala, Kotlin, REST, WebSocket, Kubernetes, GCP, OpenTelemetry, CI/CD, GitHub Copilot, Pub/Sub, Node.js
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Staff Software Engineer- Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$134k-$224k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience, bachelor's or equivalent, expertise in distributed systems, Agile/DevOps practices, strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot
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Lead Software Quality Engineering, Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in backend testing or software development; strong automation, cloud backend, data validation, and regulatory compliance experience.
Python, Kotlin, Java, SQL, BigQuery, Cassandra
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Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms
Chicago or New York
$165k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years software engineering, 7+ years microservices/architecture, expert Java (17/21), Spring Boot, cloud-native, containerization, observability, and AI/agentic backend experience.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Project Reactor, RxJava, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, REST, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Resilience4j, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Senior Software Engineer
Chicago or United States
$113k-$183k/yr RemoteFull Time
1+ YOEMaster's in Computer Science or related and 1 year experience developing backend/service-layer software. Requires Java, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, TDD practices, and Agile development experience.
Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Python
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Software Engineer
Naperville, Illinois, United States
RemoteFull Time
3+ YOEMaster's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering with three years of related software development experience; design, cloud-native architectures, Java backend, AWS, databases, and containerization.
Java, AWS, React, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Glue
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Associate Software Engineer I
Mettawa, Illinois, United States
$59k-$104k/yr HybridFull Time
Bachelor's in CS or related, strong Java, SQL, and TypeScript skills; ability to design and develop backend systems, work independently, and communicate with technical and scientific stakeholders.
Java, SQL, TypeScript, APEX
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