Job Title: Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Local candidates only - in-person interview required)
Job Type: 12+ Month Contract
Experience: 12+ years
Work Model: 5 Days Onsite
Job Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Develop secure, production-grade code; conduct thorough code reviews and enforce engineering standards
- Build and maintain highly available, scalable services with strong operational excellence
- Implement and govern authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2, JWTs, and service-to-service security patterns
- Establish observability practices (structured logging, metrics, tracing) and incident response readiness
- Partner with Product and UX to translate requirements into technical plans and manage trade-offs
- Evaluate vendor and internal solutions for architectural fit, security posture, and scalability
Required Skills
- Frontend: React (modern patterns), TypeScript, state management, component design systems, performance optimization
- Backend: Java Spring Boot - APIs, dependency injection, validation, error handling, performance tuning
- GraphQL: Schema design, resolvers, federation, N+1 mitigation, API versioning
- REST: OpenAPI contract design, pagination, idempotency, backward compatibility
- Security: OIDC/OAuth2, JWT, refresh/access token flows, least-privilege access control
- AWS (hands-on): Cloud-native application design, IAM, networking, operational tooling
- Data: AWS Aurora PostgreSQL (advanced SQL, indexing, migrations), AWS Neptune (graph modeling, Gremlin, query optimization)
- Event-Driven: AWS Kafka/MSK - topics, consumer groups, schema evolution, DLQs, monitoring
- CI/CD: Git, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), feature flags, progressive rollout
- AI-Assisted Engineering (MUST): Hands-on proficiency with Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot for development acceleration, debugging, refactoring, and test generation
Preferred Skills
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker, ECS, EKS
- Advanced security: threat modeling, OWASP Top 10, secrets management
- Platform standards: API governance, event contracts, reliability SLOs/SLIs
- Oracle HCM integration experience
Location & Work Model
Jersey City, NJ - 5 days onsite. Local candidates only; in-person client interview required.
Engagement Details
Contract engagement. Immediate need - local candidates preferred for day-one onsite availability.