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# Java Backend Engineer-AZ/Remote

- **Company:** PHOTON, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $40,000.0 - $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Github, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Load Testing, Memory Leaks, Trunk-based Development, GitHub Copilot, Spring-boot, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Git, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3352ac202ac1339c

## About the Role

* 5+ years of Java + Spring Boot microservices experience

 * 3+ years deploying and operating services on Kubernetes (GKE or AWS)

 * Hands-on JVM profiling and heap analysis experience

 * Load testing experience

 * Experience diagnosing memory leaks and latency issues in production

 * Experience triaging OOMs and P99 spikes

 * Experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities (dependency/CVE scanning, patching)

 * Experience with GitHub pull requests, branch protection rules, and code review workflows

 * Strong understanding of Git branching strategies (GitFlow or Trunk-Based Development)

 * Experience resolving merge conflicts and maintaining release branches

Familiarity with GitHub Actions or other CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment
Preferred (Nice to Have)

 * Experience with GitHub Copilot for developer productivity

 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code repositories (Terraform, Helm Charts)

 * Experience managing Kubernetes deployment manifests using GitOps (ArgoCD or FluxCD)

 * Experience reviewing performance-related code changes and production hotfixes through GitHub



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