(AME4628) Sr Java Developer

POSITION IS LOCATED IN TORRANCE, CA

Job Description:

The Sr. Developer at Digital Services Development will design and develop technical solutions that deliver meaningful digital experiences and strengthen our customer experience. The candidate will support digital applications across design, development, technical solutioning, implementation, and production engineering, including analysis and resolution of complex application and system issues.

Minimum Educational Qualifications - BS/MS degree

Key Responsibilities:

• 5-8+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on backend development using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and related open-source frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, implementing, and technically supporting cloud-native applications on AWS, utilizing services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Amazon MQ, MSK (Kafka), CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Proficient in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, and serverless application development, with a strong understanding of distributed systems design principles.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and/or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Java fundamentals, JVM internals, concurrency, multithreading, performance optimization, and functional programming concepts (Lambda Expressions, Streams API, CompletableFuture, etc.).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, and related data modeling and performance optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Apply cloud security and application security best practices, including IAM, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, and secure API design.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, technical analysis, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills for complex applications and distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, contributing to architecture decisions, code reviews, technical design, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, or similar) to improve development productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.
• Analyze application and system requirements and translate them into technical designs and implementation solutions for digital applications.
• Evaluate technical approaches and design alternatives for backend services, APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and system integrations based on scalability, performance, security, and maintainability requirements.
• Design and implement integrations between applications, APIs, databases, messaging platforms, and AWS services across the digital services ecosystem.
• Apply and contribute to technical design, coding, API, cloud, security, and performance standards through architecture reviews, code reviews, and solution implementation.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Proficiency in programming languages like Python, experience with various AI/ML frameworks.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI/LLM concepts including prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, agentic workflows, and responsible AI practices.
• AWS, Kubernetes, AI/ML, or other relevant professional certifications.

The hiring range for this position is $59.00 to $62.00 per hour, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay rate actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.