REQ Solutions

Job Title: Java Full Stack Engineer

Duration: 6+ Months (Possible temp to hire)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Onsite Role

Responsibilities:

• Multitasking-currently working on 6 application simultaneously
• 60% Backend, 40% Front End
• This role combines hands-on technical leadership with delivery execution, platform resiliency, team development, and stakeholder engagement.
• The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who thrives in complex, regulated environments and can drive modern engineering practices to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable software.
• Lead end-to-end software delivery: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release support across multiple applications and services
• Own platform resiliency: vulnerability management, compliance to enterprise resiliency initiatives, root-cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement
• Modernize and maintain applications: reduce technical debt, improve code coverage, manage dependency hygiene, and execute structured refactoring plans
• Champion secure SDLC: ensure code quality, security scanning/remediation, secure configurations, and compliance in partnership with security and risk teams
• Drive DevOps excellence: automate CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, and release management with robust rollback strategies
• Architect for scale and resilience: design modular architectures, APIs/microservices, caching strategies, data integrations, and performance tuning
• Manage stakeholder relationships: collaborate with product owners, operations, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partner teams to prioritize and deliver outcomes

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with significant responsibility for production systems
• Proven experience owning both build (development) and run (maintenance/operations) for business-critical applications
• Strong background in full-stack engineering (e.g., Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python; modern front-end frameworks such as Angular)
• Any AI tool is good to have - Windsurf (currently being used), Claude, Codex
• Experience with API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, data integration, and messaging (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
• Hands-on with cloud platforms and containerization (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker), or private cloud equivalents
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling, testing strategies (unit, integration, performance), observability (logs, metrics, traces), and feature flagging
• Solid understanding of application security, secrets management, IAM, and vulnerability management