Senior Java Developer – Engineering Efficiency & AI Champion/ Staff Software Engineer 5Senior-level Java engineer dedicated to improving engineering efficiency across multiple application teams. DevOps role, role focuses on increasing developer productivity, code quality, CI/CD maturity, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI-assisted development tools. The consultant will rotate across teams, assess codebases and workflows, and deliver production-ready pull requests that automate processes, reduce technical debt, optimize pipelines, and standardize best practices.
Environment includes Java/Spring Boot microservices deployed on AWS ECS, PostgreSQL databases, Angular frontend, Docker-based containerization, and modern CI/CD tooling.Must haves:10+ years of hands-on Java development (Java 17+) with deep expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and REST API designStrong PostgreSQL (or other relational/non-relational DB) experience including query optimization, indexing, and schema designSolid AWS experience: ECS (Fargate/EC2), ECR, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, IAM, VPCHands-on CI/CD pipeline design and optimization (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar)Docker and container orchestration experience on AWS ECSExperience improving build times, automated testing, deployment reliability, and rollback strategiesStrong Git workflow expertise (branching strategies, PR best practices, code reviews, conflict resolution)Experience integrating or leveraging AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM APIs) into development workflowsBackground in developer experience (DX) or platform engineering focused on internal toolingExperience building AI-powered utilities (code review bots, test generators, documentation generators, PR summarizers)Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)Observability tools experience (Datadog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana)Knowledge of OWASP security best practices and automated security scanning toolsContributions to open-source or internal developer tooling initiatives