Principal Engineer (Java Full Stack)

JD requirement

Assessment

10+ years of progressive engineering

Meets. 14+ years.

Staff/Principal leadership across teams

Moderate. Lead titles and "led modernization”, but no team size, pod scope or cross-team influence stated.

Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Good. Circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, failover, Kafka. Idempotency and consistency not explicit.

Java and Spring

Strong. Java 8/11/17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security.

REST API design, versioning, compatibility

Good. OpenAPI, API versioning standards, contract-style integration.

Event-driven architecture and Kafka

Strong. Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge across several roles.

PostgreSQL / SQL and data integrity

Good. PostgreSQL, Oracle, Aurora, query tuning, PL/SQL. Schema evolution and migrations not shown.

Observability (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs)

Moderate. Splunk and general logging/tracing mention. No OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana or SLOs.

Automated testing and quality

Moderate. JUnit and Mockito, regression tests in Jenkins. No contract or end-to-end tooling named.

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD

Strong, minus Helm. AWS (EC2, Aurora, Lambda, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, OpenShift, ArgoCD GitOps.

CI/CD and release engineering

Good. Jenkins with testing and security checks, GitOps. Rollback and progressive release strategy not described.

Legacy modernization

Good. Java 8 to 17, monolith to microservices, claims platform modernization.

AI-assisted development

Strong. Devin, Cursor and Claude, with a review and validation approach.