Role Description
Attadale Partners, LLC is seeking to fill multiple Java Developer roles for experienced Senior Developers with 4-6 years of experience to join our team serving successful organizations and government agencies. In this role, you will be embedded in cross-functional teams with business leaders, senior engineers, and ML engineers to transform legacy business communications, data collection, and analysis reporting. You will also support the existing systems to ensure performance during the transition period.
This role can be remote and all applicants must be US based, and is open to applicants already with the authority to work in the US. Unfortunately for these roles, we cannot sponsor new or transfer existing H-1B work visas.
We serve large commercial clients in the financial services and health care, assisting them to transform and modernize their business operations across three pillars:
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Agentic AI workflows
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Amazon Connect telephony automation
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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
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5+ years professional Java in production systems
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2+ years Agile; XP experience strongly preferred
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1+ year AWS cloud-native (Lambda, ECS, SQS, Aurora)
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Demonstrable TDD — evidenced in GitHub, not self-attested
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Event-driven microservices architecture
Requirements
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Java 17 / 21 LTS (records, sealed classes, pattern matching) - Expert
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Spring Boot 3.x (auto-config, actuators, profiles, DI) - Expert
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Spring Security, OAuth2 / OIDC - Advanced
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Spring Data JPA / Hibernate (query tuning, N+1 awareness) - Advanced
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Reactive Programming — WebFlux / Project Reactor - Proficient
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REST API & OpenAPI 3.x design - Expert
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Unit & Integration Testing — JUnit 5, Mockito, TestContainers - Expert (TDD required)
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AWS — ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, RDS Aurora, DynamoDB - Advanced
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Amazon Connect / Contact Flows (Lambda handlers, Lex bots) - Preferred
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Kafka / Amazon MSK (event-driven microservices) - Proficient
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CI/CD — trunk-based dev, GitHub Actions or equivalent - Advanced
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Agentic AI tooling — LLM APIs, tool-use loops, LangChain4j - Preferred / Will train
Experience Differentiators
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Amazon Connect integration built end-to-end
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Agentic AI or LLM workflow implementation
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Insurance, FinServ, or regulated industry background
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Open-source contributions (Java ecosystem)
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Systems scaled to 100k+ concurrent sessions
XP Engineering Practices
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Pair programming daily — driver/navigator rotation
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TDD: Red → Green → Refactor on all production code
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Trunk-based dev; short-lived branches (hours, not days)
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Collective code ownership — no silos or fiefdoms
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One-week iterations with Friday demos
Interpersonal Competencies
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Communicates technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
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Gives and receives code review feedback constructively
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Thinks out loud; surfaces blockers early
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Cross-functional empathy — understands agent/customer impact
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Mentorship orientation; shares knowledge freely
Certification and Assessments
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Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 or 21 Developer (OCP) - Required*
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AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA-C02) - Preferred
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Spring Professional Certification (VMware / Broadcom) - Preferred
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) - Advantageous
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AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty (MLS-C01) - Advantageous
Benefits
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Competitive salaries commensurate with experience
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Performance bonus
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Generous paid time off
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BCBS healthcare
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401(k) matching
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Profit sharing
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Dependent care accounts
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Mentorship by experienced staff
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Great work/life balance
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Collegial teammates
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Interesting work to stretch your skills and capabilities
