Lead Java Full Stack Engineer - Java/Spring and React - 1657 at aKUBE in Glendale, California, United States
- Company: aKUBE
- Location: Glendale, California, United States
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Contract
- Salary: Up to $103.5/hr in W2
- Experience: 5+ years
Overview
City: Glendale, CA or Seattle, WA Onsite / Hybrid / Remote: Hybrid, 3–4 days onsite Duration: 9 Months to start with Rate Range: Up to $103.5/hr in W2 Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except OPT, CPT, H1B Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software applications.
Job description
- City: Glendale, CA or Seattle, WA
- Onsite / Hybrid / Remote: Hybrid, 3–4 days onsite
- Duration: 9 Months to start with
- Rate Range: Up to $103.5/hr in W2
- Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except OPT, CPT, H1B
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software applications.
- Lead medium- to large-scale features from design through production.
- Contribute to service and system architecture decisions.
- Develop production-ready code and participate in code and design reviews.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and engineering teams.
- Improve application observability, performance, reliability, and resiliency.
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers.
Requirements
- At least five years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring.
- Experience with object-relational mapping frameworks.
- Experience building full-stack applications using React or a comparable frontend framework.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Experience developing and consuming RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of client-server communication, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of cloud-native development, stateless services, horizontal scaling, and observability.
- Strong SQL and database development experience.
- Ability to evaluate downstream impacts across interconnected systems.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems with limited guidance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
- Experience with AWS or another cloud platform.
- Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon SNS/SQS.
- Experience in advertising technology or media-processing workflows.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Amazon Q Developer.
Skills
Required
- Java
- Spring
- Object-relational mapping frameworks
- React or comparable frontend framework
- Relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- Containerized deployments
- Cloud services
- SQL
- Client-server communication
- Distributed systems
Preferred
- Spring Boot
- AWS or other cloud platform
- Terraform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon SNS/SQS