Full Stack Developer - Advanced

• Design, implement, and operate backend services using Java and Spring Boot with high reliability and performance.
• Build responsive React and TypeScript frontends with robust state management, routing, and accessibility.
• Develop and manage Kafka-based event streaming solutions, including topics, schemas, and consumers.
• Design OpenAPI-first REST APIs with versioning, idempotency, and consistent error handling.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization with Spring Security and OAuth2/OIDC.
• Model data with JPA, tune queries, and implement resilient transactions and pagination.
• Deploy and operate workloads on AWS using ECS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, S3, SQS/SNS, and CloudWatch.
• Create infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK with environment promotion.
• Establish observability with structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alarms.
• Drive quality through automated testing, performance testing, and secure SDLC practices.
• Contribute to runbooks, on-call readiness, and postmortems with preventative actions.

We are seeking a Software Engineering - Full Stack Developer - Advanced to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, AWS, Kafka, SQL, and observability and a proven ability to design, build, secure, and operate scalable full-stack systems in production., * 7+ years of hands-on full-stack development as an individual contributor.

• Expertise in Java, OOP and functional patterns, concurrency, collections, and performance profiling, including thread and heap dump analysis.
• Advanced Spring Boot including controllers, validation, exception handling, filters, interceptors, content negotiation, file streaming, and async processing.
• Spring Data/JPA with entity modeling, transactions, isolation levels, pagination, and query tuning, including N+1 mitigation and projections.
• Spring Security with OAuth2/OIDC, method-level security, CORS/CSRF, and secure token/session handling.
• Kafka design and operations including topics, partitions, producers/consumers, consumer groups, Avro schemas, Kafka Connect/Streams, ACLs/TLS, and monitoring/tuning.
• API integration with resilient clients, including timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and request signing when required.
• Frontend React and TypeScript, component design, hooks, state management, routing, forms, and client-side error handling with robust data fetching and caching.
• Testing proficiency: JUnit 5, Mockito, Spring test slices, Testcontainers, React Testing Library, and e2e basics with Cypress or Playwright.
• AWS experience shipping production workloads with ECS, EC2 autoscaling, VPC, subnets, security groups, NACLs, S3, RDS/Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB awareness, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and Splunk.
• IAM roles and policies, least-privilege design, cross-account access, and secrets management patterns.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation/CDK, parameterization, environment promotion, and drift awareness.
• Containerization with Docker, multi-stage builds, health checks, and resource limits.
• SQL expertise with indexing, query plans, joins, transactions, and end-to-end tuning for slow queries.
• Migrations using Flyway or Liquibase with zero-downtime patterns.
• Caching with Redis, TTL design, stampede prevention, and invalidation strategies.
• Observability with structured logging and correlation IDs, metrics and SLOs, OpenTelemetry tracing, and actionable alarms.
• Security-first mindset including RBAC/ABAC, least privilege in app and AWS IAM, SAST/dependency scanning, and secure secrets handling without code or log exposure.

Preferred Skills:

• API contract testing with Pact and performance testing with load tools.
• Experience with Terraform as primary IaC and CD pipelines with environment promotion.

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Opportunities for growth with global clients.
• A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.