Top Senior Java Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Develops, enhances, tests, and maintains enterprise Java applications and RESTful web services. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, building Java EE/JEE applications, implementing authentication and authorization, optimizing PostgreSQL databases, supporting AWS environments and CI/CD pipelines, applying security and accessibility standards, and translating business requirements into application features. Collaborates with technical teams and stakeholders in a remote work environment.

Develop core infrastructure and horizontally scalable APIs for Elasticsearch. Solve complex performance, concurrency, stability, and operational issues; improve observability and developer productivity through automation and AI-enabled workflows. Lead cross-team projects, design APIs, support difficult customer issues, and own investigations through resolution. Collaborate across distributed engineering teams while contributing to open-source projects and maintaining secure, performant, and reliable platform functionality.

Build and operate a new full-stack payment and expense management platform from architecture through production. Develop backend services, APIs, data models, web and mobile capabilities, and partner integrations. Establish secure engineering, testing, observability, and production-readiness practices. Collaborate with product, design, security, and distributed engineering teams; review code, resolve complex issues, manage technical risks, mentor engineers, and own technical outcomes through continuous improvement.

Build enterprise workforce management software for forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, adherence, intraday management, and reporting. Develop Java and Spring Boot microservices, React and TypeScript applications, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, integrations, and PostgreSQL data models. Support cloud-native deployments, CI/CD, testing, performance optimization, production troubleshooting, and technical design. Collaborate with product, operations research, QA, DevOps, UX, and client stakeholders.

Develop and maintain Java applications, RESTful services, and Angular frontends using Spring Boot and NgRx. Deploy applications to cloud platforms, practice TDD, manage CI/CD with Jenkins, and work with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. Participate in agile processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and independently lead technical initiatives and feature delivery.

Develop and maintain Java-based applications, integrations, workflows, and services supporting an Oracle Identity Manager IAM platform. Responsibilities include troubleshooting production issues, performing root cause analysis, developing SOAP and REST integrations, configuring connectors, supporting Oracle SOA workflows, assisting with upgrades and modernization, and maintaining security and change-management documentation. The role collaborates with government stakeholders and requires the ability to obtain an IT-II security clearance.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable Java and Spring Boot services for a multi-tenant ecommerce SaaS platform. Build REST APIs, optimize MySQL data access, operate AWS workloads, and support CI/CD, observability, testing, and production troubleshooting. Contribute to architecture and technical decisions, mentor engineers, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and help maintain PCI DSS compliance.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for reasoning quality, engineering judgment, explanations, and usefulness. Provide detailed written and recorded feedback, distinguish response quality levels, and help define standards for effective AI-assisted development workflows. This remote contract requires 10–20 hours weekly, with ongoing projects lasting two weeks to several months.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot backend applications, microservices, and RESTful APIs. Responsibilities include database integration, code reviews, performance optimization, production troubleshooting, testing, CI/CD, cloud deployment, and collaboration with product, QA, and DevOps teams.

Build enterprise workforce management software for forecasting, staffing, scheduling, adherence, intraday management, and operational reporting. Develop Java and Spring Boot microservices, React and TypeScript applications, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, PostgreSQL data models, integrations, and cloud-native deployments. Support CI/CD, production troubleshooting, performance optimization, architecture discussions, code reviews, and stakeholder collaboration across product, QA, DevOps, UX, and operations.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient distributed systems. Act as technical authority across teams, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and enhance observability while writing production-grade Java.

Seeking a Senior Java Developer with 7+ years of experience and expertise in Java, Spring, Maven, and database technologies. Responsibilities include integration, automation testing, and effective problem-solving.

The Sr. Java Developer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable APIs, leading junior developers, and tackling big data challenges using various technologies. Must have strong Java, Kafka, and NoSQL experience.

The Sr. Java Developer will design and implement core Java/J2EE systems, lead projects, and mentor teams while managing technical challenges.

The Senior Java Developer will focus on backend development, utilizing Java, Kafka, Cassandra, and Spring technologies to create complex systems and maintain high availability.

Responsible for developing and enhancing risk prevention systems to combat cybercrime, collaborating with teams to design and implement features.

Investigate and resolve data-quality issues in large-scale distributed systems. Design Java-based repair pipelines and idempotent correction jobs for high-volume datasets, debug existing code, use AWS services for queue-driven and batch workflows, optimize performance and concurrency, and communicate technical findings and risks to stakeholders.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot backend applications and REST APIs. Optimize CPU, memory, and overall application performance; identify bottlenecks; resolve production issues; and contribute to architecture, code reviews, reliability, and scalability. The role also involves Node.js or Python FastAPI services, cross-functional collaboration, and potential work with GraphQL, generative AI, cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring tools.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and operates large-scale distributed software products for Allstate’s Enterprise Payments organization. Responsibilities include building Java and Spring Boot REST APIs, designing microservices, collaborating on system architecture, practicing paired programming and test-driven development, establishing CI/CD pipelines, improving performance, securing APIs, supporting production applications, and contributing to Agile planning, retrospectives, and knowledge sharing.

Design, build, and maintain scalable J2EE business applications. Implement features, fix bugs, participate in code reviews, automate tests, optimize performance, and produce documentation.

Senior Java developer to build and maintain core Java/J2EE applications with faceted/index search capabilities using Apache Solr, Lucene, and Hibernate Search. Work may involve MySQL and distributed database technologies on a 12-month contract with possible extensions.

Lead a Java development team to analyze complex requirements, create technical specifications, maintain code quality and best practices, oversee delivery plans, and ensure performance-tuned database-driven enterprise applications.

Lead reverse-engineering of TIBCO BW/MFT processes, document business rules, and reimplement them as modular Java/Spring Boot microservices. Migrate protocols to Kafka/RabbitMQ/REST, ensure data consistency, and perform performance testing to match legacy SLAs.

Design and build Java/J2EE solutions using Spring and APIs; develop webservices, DB schemas, PL/SQL and transactional SQL in DB2/Oracle; collaborate with architects, developers and DevOps to implement CI/CD (Jenkins, uDeploy), ensure code quality (Sonar), perform code reviews and testing, resolve technical roadblocks, and drive process improvements. Requires strong communication and teamwork.