Role Description Attadale Partners, LLC is seeking to fill multiple Java Developer roles for early career Java Developers with 1-3 years of experience to join our team in a CONTRACTOR ROLE serving successful organizations and government agencies. In this role, you will: - Lead enterprise transformation roles including Agentic AI processes, cloud telephony, and integrated communication channels. - Be embedded in cross-functional teams with business leaders, senior engineers, and ML engineers to transform legacy business communications, data collection, and analysis reporting. - Support existing systems to ensure performance during the transition period. This role can be remote and all applicants must be US based with a preference for Chicago-area applicants. These roles are open to applicants already with the authority to work in the US. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor new or transfer existing H-1B work visas. We serve large commercial clients in the financial services and health care sectors, assisting them to transform and modernize their business operations across three pillars: - Agentic AI workflows - Amazon Connect telephony automation - Expanded self-service for agents and customers We practice Extreme Programming (XP) — pair programming, TDD, and continuous integration are how we work every day. This is a day-one contributor role; minimum ramp-up time is expected. Qualifications - 1-3+ years professional Java in production systems - 2+ years Agile; XP experience strongly preferred - 1+ year AWS cloud-native (Lambda, ECS) - TDD — evidenced examples will be differentiators - Event-driven microservices architecture Requirements - Java 17 / 21 LTS (records, sealed classes, pattern matching) - Expert - Spring Boot 3.x (auto-config, actuators, profiles, DI) - Expert - Spring Security, OAuth2 / OIDC - Advanced - REST API & OpenAPI 3.x design - Expert - Unit & Integration Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito - Expert - Test Driven Development (TDD) - Required - AWS — Lambda, DynamoDB - Advanced - Amazon Connect / Contact Flows (Lambda handlers, Lex bots) - Preferred - Kafka / Amazon MSK (event-driven microservices) - Proficient - CI/CD — trunk-based dev, GitHub Actions or equivalent - Advanced - Agentic AI tooling — LLM APIs, tool-use loops, LangChain4j - Preferred / Will train Benefits - Remote work flexibility - Opportunity to work on impactful systems - Collaborative and supportive team environment Interpersonal Competencies - Communicates technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders - Gives and receives code review feedback constructively - Thinks out loud; surfaces blockers early - Cross-functional empathy — understands agent/customer impact - Mentorship orientation; shares knowledge freely Certification and Assessments - AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA-C02) - Preferred - Spring Professional Certification (VMware / Broadcom) - Preferred - AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) - Advantageous - AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty (MLS-C01) - Advantageous