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