Senior Java Engineer Jobs in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction.   From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”

• 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer 2, you will drive efforts to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of AWS cloud infrastructure and services. You will work extensively with Kubernetes (EKS), Helm charts, Kafka, and cloud-native solutions, while also ensuring stability for legacy Java applications running on EC2. You will focus on automation, cost optimization, and applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.

What you'll do

• Architect and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on automation and efficiency.

• Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes applications and traditional EC2 workloads.

• Implement and enhance observability solutions using DataDog, ensuring real-time monitoring and proactive issue resolution.

• Drive Kubernetes-based containerization and orchestration initiatives.

• Work with Kafka to design and optimize event-driven architectures.

• Work with developers to build platform features that enable self-service and increase velocity

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, and Kafka.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and scripting (Python, Bash). Experience with one other high-level language such as Java or Golang preferred.

• Familiarity with healthcare-specific technologies such as FHIR and HL7 and their common implementation patterns (such as HL7 VPN networking requirements)

• Deep understanding of cloud networking, security, and scalability best practices.

• Experience with troubleshooting and optimizing large-scale cloud infrastructures.

ModMed Benefits Highlight:  At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k):  ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address (first.lastname@modmed.com). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully.  Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.