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Java Backend Developer - Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$34k-$121k/yr OnsiteFull Time, Contract
Photon Interactive
Photon Interactive: Full-service digital agency driving AI-led digital transformation.
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 Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$130k-$150k/yr HybridFull Time
Motorola Solutions
Motorola SolutionsNYSE: MSI: Global leader in mission-critical communications and security technology.
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 - 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
The Real Brokerage
The Real BrokerageTSXV: REAX: Real is a technology-enabled residential real estate brokerage serving agents, home buyers, and sellers.
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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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
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly: B2B feature-management software helping engineering teams safely manage code releases and AI agents in production.
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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Senior Backend Engineer
Chicago or Milwaukee or Atlanta or Jacksonville
$123k-$209k/yr HybridFull Time
FIS, Inc.
FIS, Inc.NYSE: FIS: Global leader in financial technology and payment processing services.
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 / Platform Developer Consultant (Temporal & Kubernetes)
Chicago or United States
RemoteFull Time
Bitovi
Bitovi: Software consulting firm helping clients with product design, engineering, development, and DevOps.
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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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
Altruist
Altruist: Private fintech wealth platform and self-clearing custodian providing integrated tools for independent financial advisors.
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
Accenture
AccentureNYSE: ACN: Global professional services delivering 360° value.
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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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
Accenture
AccentureNYSE: ACN: Global professional services delivering 360° value.
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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Lead Software Engineer, Back End
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$179k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: A technology-driven bank providing diverse financial services.
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
Nava PBC
Nava PBC: Privately held public-benefit technology consultancy building digital services for federal, state, and local agencies.
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
Verana Health
Verana Health: Digital health providing real-world data, analytics, and clinical research services to clinicians and life sciences companies.
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 Quality Assurance Specialist
Chicago or New York City
$120k-$140k/yr HybridFull Time
Rothera
Rothera: CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange and clearinghouse providing institutional event-contract trading and clearing services to FCMs and market makers.
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field; 3+ years in QA or software testing; proficiency in Java, Python, FIX, and SQL; experience with Cucumber, Playwright, and JUnit.
Java, Python, FIX, SQL, Cucumber, Playwright, JUnit
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Software Engineer: Backend
United States or Chicago
$105k-$130k/yr HybridFull Time
LogicGate
LogicGate: GRC software serving enterprise governance, risk, and compliance teams.
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
Flex
Flex: Private fintech helping renters split rent payments and properties collect rent on schedule.
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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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back End (Go, Python, Java)
McLean or Chicago
$209k-$262k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: A technology-driven bank providing diverse financial services.
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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R&D Management Trainee - Full-Stack Engineer (Backend）
Illinois or United States
$60k-$80k/yr RemoteFull Time
CWILL
CWILL: Privately held SaaS providing post-purchase and retention tools for Shopify and DTC brands.
0+ YOERecent US graduate or within 1–2 years of graduation. Proficiency in at least one backend language, web fundamentals, basic SQL, debugging and ownership of work.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, React, Node.js, Next.js, NestJS, Redis, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, Aliyun, GitHub, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
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Lead Software Quality Engineering, Backend
Chicago, Illinois, United States
$150k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Prolaio
Prolaio: Private cardiovascular clinical-intelligence providing continuous heart data and analytics to researchers, providers, and patients.
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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Software Development Engineer 2 (Java 17+)
Portland or Boston or Chicago or Dallas or San Francisco or Seattle
$96k-$116k/yr RemoteFull Time
WEX
WEXNYSE: WEX: Public fintech and payments helping businesses manage fleet fuel, employee benefits, and corporate payments.
3+ YOERequires 3–6 years of backend software development experience, strong Java and Spring expertise, REST API design, AWS, SQL, PostgreSQL, messaging, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and Maven or Gradle experience.
Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security, Salesforce, Apex, GraphQL, gRPC, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, SQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Maven, Gradle, JUnit, Mockito
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Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms
Chicago or New York
$165k-$205k/yr HybridFull Time
Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient: Enterprise technology helping global organizations modernize systems, deploy AI agents, and improve operations.
12+ YOE12+ years software engineering, 7+ years microservices/system design/technical leadership. Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud platforms, observability, and AI/agentic backend systems.
Java (17/21), Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Reactive Java (Project Reactor / RxJava), gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, REST APIs, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Resilience4j, Redis, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Agent Development Kit (ADK), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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