82 java developer java backend engineer jobs at 55 companies in Illinois
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
6d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
1w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2mo
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
3w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Software Engineer, Java - Endpoint State & Control Team
California or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Kansas or Massachusetts or Maryland or Maine or New Jersey or North Carolina or New York or Ohio or Oregon or Tennessee or Texas or Virginia or Washington or Austin or Tampa
$140k-$200k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend Java/Kotlin experience, strong Java 11+ skills, RESTful API and multi-tenant SaaS design, PostgreSQL familiarity, ability to design data models and backend systems from scratch.
Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang, Postgres, AWS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS
2d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Senior Software Development Engineer (Java, Nest, React)
Dallas or Chicago
$93k-$204k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software development experience; strong backend and API skills with Java Spring Boot, Node.js, GraphQL; Kubernetes and observability experience; API design and cloud-native architecture knowledge.
Java Spring Boot, Node.js, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Gradle, NestJS, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Model Context Protocol (MCP)
6d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
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
2w
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
Principal Java Microservices Architect — AI & Agentic Platforms
Chicago or New York
$165k-$205k/yr HybridFull Time
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)
6d
Save
Mark Applied
Hide
R&D Management Trainee - Full-Stack Engineer (Backend）
Illinois or United States
$60k-$80k/yr RemoteFull Time
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
Explore Jobs
Expand Your Job Search
Top Cities in Illinois for Java Developer Java Backend Engineer
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Chicago, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Aurora, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Rockford, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Joliet, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Naperville, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Springfield, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Peoria, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Elgin, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Waukegan, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Champaign, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Cicero, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Bloomington, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Arlington Heights, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Evanston, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Schaumburg, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Bolingbrook, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Decatur, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Palatine, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Skokie, IL
- Java Developer Java Backend Engineer jobs in Des Plaines, IL