Java and Database Developer

Employment Requirements

This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

This opportunity is for local candidates only.

Job Description

Solü is currently seeking a Java and Database Developer to join our client’s team. This role supports business-critical services that exchange information between court case management systems and external agencies. The position focuses on Java development, relational database development, enterprise integrations, and production operations. The ideal candidate will have approximately three to five years of experience developing and supporting Java applications and relational databases, with strong hands-on experience in SQL, stored procedures, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, REST APIs, and enterprise integrations. Following initial training, teleworking up to two days per week may be available.

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, maintain, and tune SQL, complex stored procedures, views, triggers, and related database business logic.

• Develop and maintain Spring Boot services, REST APIs, message-based integrations, batch processes, and supporting service-layer code.

• Support Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Batch, JDBC/JPA, file and FTP integrations, scheduled workflows, and job monitoring.

• Investigate application issues, data discrepancies, failed integrations, and production incidents, including participation in a weekly on-call rotation.

• Support IBM MQ, APIs, messaging, file-transfer, notification, and scheduled-processing workflows across connected application systems.

• Diagnose defects, trace existing business logic, implement targeted fixes and enhancements, and carefully refactor Java and database code without disrupting established business behavior or integrations.

• Improve performance, stability, logging, maintainability, availability, and recovery across database and Java components.

• Test, debug, review, and validate database and Java changes before release according to established procedures.

• Work with analysts, testers, DBAs, developers, and operations staff to deliver reliable changes.

• Troubleshoot production database issues, including data reconciliation, query tuning, data quality, and relational database support.

• Support application integration and distributed systems, including service dependencies, failover, retries, timeouts, idempotency, and recovery.

• Maintain accurate documentation and communicate technical findings and production issues clearly.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of professional experience developing and supporting Java applications and relational databases, including significant hands-on relational database development.

• Java and Spring Boot: Ability to develop and maintain Spring Boot services, REST APIs, Spring batch processes, JDBC/JPA access, and configuration.

• Application integration and distributed systems: Experience supporting REST APIs, IBM MQ or another enterprise messaging platform, message-based workflows, scheduled jobs, secure transfers, and application logs, with an

• understanding of service dependencies, failover, retries, timeouts, idempotency, and recovery.

• SQL and database skills: Significant hands-on experience developing, debugging, and maintaining complex stored procedures and database business logic, including triggers, views, joins, scripts, query tuning, and data reconciliation.

• Database platform experience: Working knowledge of SAP ASE/Sybase or a comparable relational database platform.

• Production support: Ability to diagnose issues, communicate status clearly, and deliver accurate fixes with minimal oversight.

• Build and testing: Working knowledge of Maven, unit testing, mocking frameworks, and code review practices.

• Communication and ownership: Ability to explain technical findings and take ownership of complete, tested work.

Preferred Technology and Experience:

• Modern Java stack: Java 17 or newer, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Web, Spring Batch, JDBC/JPA, REST APIs, messaging, monitoring, and structured logging.

• Database connectivity and operations: JDBC, connection pooling, multiple data source configuration, and production database troubleshooting.

• Integration patterns: API integration, message-based processing, stored procedure integration, scheduling, email, file publishing, and FTP/SFTP-style support.

• Database Stack: Experience with Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, or another comparable procedural SQL environment may be considered transferable to SAP ASE/Sybase.

Supplementary Technical Experience:

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker containerization with familiarity in Kubernetes or OpenShift.

• CI/CD & Version Control: Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable automation tools.

• Observability & Logging: Application monitoring using Splunk, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or distributed tracing.

• Application Security: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mutual TLS, certificates, and secrets management.

• Integration Testing & Mocking: Test containers, WireMock, contract testing, Selenium, or Cypress.

• System Scripting & Operations: Linux/Unix shell scripting, PowerShell, load testing, or capacity planning.

• Frontend Exposure: Familiarity with React, Angular, Vue, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS for end-to-end troubleshooting.

• Delivery & Practices: Agile/Scrum methodologies, pull request workflows, peer reviews, issue tracking, and technical documentation.