Java/AWS Engineer
Jersey City, NJ
Category: Development
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -052026-106692
Date Posted: 04/30/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/5ivoDJ
Description:
Hybrid until Jersey City goes fully onsite in Jersey City, NJ
Our client seeks a Java/AWS Engineer to develop Kafka-based event-driven applications and RESTful APIs within a high-throughput, low-latency brokerage processing domain. The role will design and build reusable microservices on AWS while supporting modernization from legacy systems to cloud-native solutions. You will apply CI/CD practices, containerization, and automation testing to deliver scalable, resilient services.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $85.00 to $90.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Design, architect, and build scalable, low-latency event-driven services using Java, Spring Boot, and Apache Kafka.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices with a focus on reusability and high throughput.
- Leverage AWS managed services, containerization, and infrastructure automation to deploy resilient applications.
- Implement CI/CD practices including feature toggles, blue-green deployments, and A/B testing to reduce risk and cycle time.
- Create automation testing with frameworks such as Cucumber to ensure quality and reliability.
- Participate in technical discussions and provide guidance to accelerate modernization squads.
- Optimize data access using Hibernate/JDBC and connection pooling with relational databases.
- Build and operate observability with CloudWatch and related tooling to ensure service health.
Experience Requirements:
- 6+ years of professional experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Hands-on experience building event-driven applications with Apache Kafka.
- Proficiency in designing high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices with Spring Boot.
- Hands-on experience with container-based development using Docker.
- Experience with Hibernate ORM, JDBC, and connection pooling against relational databases.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices such as GitHub, Jenkins, Stash, Artifactory, and Terraform.
- Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and EKS (preferred).
- Automation testing experience using frameworks like Cucumber.
- Background in implementing microservices architecture and highly automated, scalable infrastructure.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
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