Freelance Junior Java Developer Remote Jobs in Minnesota

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Lead Full Stack Java Developer for a remote contract position with a Leading Pharmacy Benefit Manager. This is for a long term contract. This position is 100% remote.
Compensation: $102.00 - $106.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications
Position Overview:
This role is for a Lead Full-Stack Java Developer on an Agile team working on a fully cloud-based application. The team is standing up a new product capability supporting a new client implementation and will operate in an AI-first, agentic engineering environment. The position requires deep experience with microservices architecture using Spring Boot and Kafka, cloud-based application development and deployment, and designing applications that support high-volume, data-intensive workloads. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, and significant AI-first or agentic engineering experience is required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of complex new features, including AI-driven solutions
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Full-Stack Java, Spring Boot, and microservices development
• Design scalable microservices and event-driven solutions using Kafka
• Design application and data-processing solutions capable of supporting high-volume, data-intensive workloads
• Analyze and evaluate proposed application systems to process data
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs
• Lead or influence technical design decisions across application services, interfaces, integrations, data flows, and cloud architecture
• Collaborate with business users, systems analysts, engineers, technical leads, and project managers to establish specifications
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, and system interfaces
• Deploy and support applications in cloud environments
• Install applications into production environments following change control processes
• Develop and implement acceptance test plans to ensure product meets customer requirements
• Help drive AI-first and agentic engineering practices across the development team
• Conduct code and design reviews and help establish scalable, maintainable engineering patterns
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, cloud, database, and performance issues
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction while remaining actively involved in hands-on development

Primary Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• Extensive experience as a Full-Stack Java developer with deep Spring Boot expertise
• Strong experience designing and developing microservices architectures
• Strong Kafka and event-driven application experience
• Cloud experience (GCP, AWS, or Azure) with significant experience deploying and supporting applications in cloud environments
• Strong database architecture and SQL experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting high-volume, data-intensive applications
• Strong hands-on experience with AI First / agentic engineering, including tools or approaches such as CoPilot, Claude, agents, LLMs, RAG, or prompt engineering
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including architecture/design decisions, technical guidance, code reviews, and mentoring
• Ability to remain hands-on with development while providing technical direction to other engineers
• Experience designing scalable, distributed application solutions
• Experience working in an Agile environment

Desired Skills:

• GCP experience
• Experience with React
• Experience with application scalability, performance optimization, and production troubleshooting
• Experience helping engineering teams adopt new technologies, development tools, or engineering practices

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all of our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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