Lead Java Developer

Avanciers is seeking a highly skilled Lead Java Developer to join our team for an exciting long-term contract with one of our esteemed clients, based in Berkley Heights, NJ (Onsite). Title: Lead Java Developer Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ(Onsite) Long term Contract Opportunity Role Description • Develop and maintain backend services for a modern financial product using Java, Microservices/APIs, and Kafka on Azure. • Work with senior engineers to build scalable, secure, high-performance services and learn cloud-native and DevOps best practices. • Participate in code reviews; follow coding standards; support refactoring and improvements. • Collaborate with QA and DevOps to integrate services into CI/CD; troubleshoot defects and performance issues under guidance; participate in Agile ceremonies. • Encryption and decryption experience (PGP) Skill Java Programming OOP & SOLID; Java 8+ (Lambdas, Streams); build REST APIs; DI & configuration; Spring Boot for microservices Microservices Architecture Hands-on building microservices; patterns like Circuit Breaker or Saga Event Streaming Hands-on with Kafka/Azure Event Hubs and messaging services DevOps & Deployment Understand CI/CD and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)