Intern Java Backend Developer Jobs in Cleveland, OH

Job#: 3044485
Job Description:
Job Summary
We are seeking a Java Developer to design, build, enhance, and support secure, scalable enterprise applications for a financial services environment. This role will focus on backend development using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle Database, and microservices architecture. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who can work independently on well-defined features, collaborate with business and technology stakeholders, and contribute to reliable, maintainable solutions that support critical business workflows. This position is well suited for a developer who has solid backend engineering experience, understands enterprise application delivery, and is comfortable working across the full software development lifecycle. Familiarity with Angular is a plus, especially for teams that occasionally support or coordinate with frontend application components.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain Java-based applications and microservices using Spring Boot and related Spring frameworks.
Build and enhance RESTful APIs that support enterprise business processes and service-to-service integrations.
Develop backend business logic, data access layers, and integration components using Java, Spring Boot, and Oracle Database.
Write clean, maintainable, secure, and testable code aligned with team standards and enterprise engineering practices.
Work with Oracle SQL, database schemas, stored procedures, indexes, constraints, query optimization, and transaction handling to support data quality and performance.
Participate in application design discussions, API contract definition, technical documentation, code reviews, and implementation planning.
Troubleshoot application issues across development, test, and production environments, including root-cause analysis, defect resolution, and performance tuning. Support application reliability, availability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness for financial services systems.
Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, architects, and other developers to deliver business value through iterative development.
Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve code quality, automation, performance, supportability, and delivery efficiency. Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with Angular or other modern frontend frameworks, with the ability to understand UI/API interactions and collaborate effectively with frontend developers. Experience in banking, lending, payments, risk, compliance, or broader financial services technology environments.
Experience with Spring Security, OAuth/OIDC, JWT, API gateways, or enterprise authentication and authorization patterns.
Experience with containerized or cloud-native deployment environments such as Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with messaging or event-driven patterns using technologies such as Kafka, IBM MQ, or similar tools.
Experience with observability tools such as Elastic, Grafana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring/logging platforms.
Exposure to DevOps practices, automated deployment pipelines, environment configuration, and release management.
Understanding of performance tuning for Java services, REST APIs, and Oracle SQL queries.
Experience contributing to technical documentation, API specifications, operational runbooks, and production-support knowledge bases.
Awareness of regulated-environment expectations, including auditability, traceability, access control, data protection, and change-management discipline.
Financial Services Expectations
The successful candidate should understand that financial services applications often support high-value business processes and sensitive customer or transactional data. This role requires an engineering mindset that prioritizes:
Reliability: Building services that are stable, observable, and supportable in production.
Performance: Designing APIs and database interactions that can scale with business needs.
Security: Applying secure coding practices and supporting vulnerability remediation.
Data integrity: Protecting accuracy, consistency, and completeness of financial and customer data.
Regulatory awareness: Working carefully in environments where controls, auditability, and change discipline matter.
Business collaboration: Partnering effectively with product owners, analysts, operations, risk, compliance, and technology teams.
Ownership: Taking responsibility for assigned features from design through implementation, testing, deployment support, and issue resolution.
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