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# Java Backend Engineer (214067)

- **Company:** Skills, Inc.
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $183,040 - $193,440
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Kubernetes, Pagerduty
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/65cbf80c-c227-46b3-9a34-0c24133521aa/java-backend-engineer-

## About the Role

* You have experience operating distributed, high-volume backend services in production, and you know how to deploy them and keep them running
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 * You are comfortable triaging incidents on systems you did not build, using runbooks, dashboards and logs
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 * You have hands-on experience with Java backend services; experience with Kubernetes and cloud providers (such as GCP) is preferred
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 * You have experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as PagerDuty, Grafana and Prometheus/PromQL
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 * You write clear documentation and enjoy leaving systems better than you found them
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 * You are comfortable using AI coding tools to speed up maintenance and migration work
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 * You communicate clearly and work well asynchronously with distributed teams
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