Software Engineer 5

3Core Systems, Inc is an SAP and SuccessFactors partner with employees located across the United States. Our organization is dedicated to customer and employee satisfaction. We provide high-quality, cost-efficient, and Competitive Solutions and Resources.

3Core Systems is looking for a Software Engineer 5 (Lead Java Backend Developer) for one of our clients in Chicago, IL (Remote)

Job Title: Software Engineer 5 (Lead Java Backend Developer)
Location: Chicago, IL (Remote, but there will be travel involved when needed Locals preferred)
Duration: 12 months contract.

Position s Contributions to Work Group:

• Provides technical leadership and delivery ownership for a team of software engineers building and operating scalable cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Drives architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and solution design across Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch platforms, CI/CD, observability and AWS infrastructure.
• Collaborates with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions while mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and ensuring successful execution of business objectives.

Typical task breakdown:

• Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications.
• Establishes technical direction and architectural standards.
• Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices.
• Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Interaction with team:

• Mentors engineers and develop technical talent.
• Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals.

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor s degree is a must.
• 10+ years experience in this capacity with 5+ years in a lead role.
• Candidates with solid backend development experience and prior exposure to the automotive/automobile industry would be a great fit.

Required Technical Skills:

• Java (latest would be ideal)
• Spring Boot
• Microservices
• REST APIs
• AWS (ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager)
• OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
• Docker
• CI/CD
• GitHub
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Architecture
• Observability
• DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• SQL/NoSQL databases
• Event-Driven Architecture
• API Integration
• Performance Optimization, and AI-assisted Development Tools.

Soft Skills:

Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and coaching, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, ownership, conflict resolution, adaptability, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams while driving successful delivery of complex cloud-native solutions.

Regards,

Recruiting Team

3Core Systems Inc

9101 Burnet Road, Suite 207, Austin, TX 78758

3Core Systems, Inc