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# Java Engineer

- **Company:** Galactic Minds Inc.
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Gradle, Load Testing, Enterprise Messaging Systems, NoSQL, Query Optimization, Prometheus, Swagger, Software Engineering, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Spring-boot, AWS Lambda, Vert.x, Spring Data, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Reactive Programming, Restful APIs, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8019c0b1-7f88-49df-a861-7090ba8d2817

## About the Role

* Overall 8+ years of developing internet-scale solution development primarily using Java, Spring Boot and no-sql databases

 * Must have demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following tools and technologies:

 * Java 11 (Lambdas, Streams, Completable Future, optional, generics)

 * Spring boot (webflux , Reactor 3), spring-data, REST

 * Java functional and reactive programming

 * Test Driven Development

 * Asynchronous Reactive Micro services utilizing Vert.x

 * REST APIs using Spring Boot 2.0 (reactive) and skilled in Open API (swagger) specification

 * Designing database schemas, index design, optimizations for query tuning

 * Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. docker, kubernetes, jager, prometheus)

 * Modern software engineering tools: git workflows, gradle, load testing tools, mock frameworks

 * Good knowledge of messaging systems like Kafka, mq

 * Take pride in writing good clean code, perform peer code reviews and architecture reviews.

 * A bachelor's degree in engineering or related field

 * Java certification is a plus

Candidate Soft Skills :

 * Demonstrated evidence to learn new skills
 * Demonstrated evidence of going above and beyond to make projects successful
 * Good Communication is necessary.



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