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Software Engineer Java

UNICOM TECHNOLOGIES INCUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Software Engineer role offers significant growth potential by allowing you to design and scale critical order fulfillment systems for a global platform. You'll thrive here if you're a mid-senior Java developer eager to collaborate on impactful projects and refine your backend development skills. Apply today to join a dynamic tech team and make a real difference!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Software Engineer - Java

Location: Louisville, KY (100% Remote)

Type: Contract-to-Hire (6 Months CTH)

Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fulfillment Team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling the core systems that enable order fulfillment. You will work closely with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver highly reliable, performant, and extensible software that supports tens of thousands of restaurants and millions of customers globally.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-availability backend services supporting order fulfillment and delivery workflows.
  • Lead technical design and drive architecture decisions for cloud-native, distributed, event-driven systems.
  • Build APIs and event-driven services integrating with POS, kitchen systems, delivery platforms, and external partners.
  • Own services end-to-end (design, implementation, deployment, observability, and reliability).
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while promoting engineering best practices.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing and contributing to refinement of engineering standards.
  • Collaborate with external vendors and internal Product, QA, DevOps, development teams and Business Operations teams to deliver resilient, impactful solutions.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for critical systems.

Requirements:

  • 3-5 years of software engineering experience building secure, scalable backend and/or distributed systems and leading software development teams.
  • Proven experience designing and operating high-scale, cloud-native microservices in production.
  • Strong proficiency in backend Java and Spring Boot.
  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform preferred).
  • Strong understanding of databases, messaging systems, and caching strategies.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and sense of ownership.
  • Proven track record for designing/creating quality solutions with minimal input.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.

Required Skills:

  • Backend: Java 17-25, Spring Boot 3, some Python/JS.
  • Cloud Platform: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Firestore, GKEE, GSM, etc).
  • Architecture: Event-driven microservices, asynchronous processing, webhook ingestion, RESTful APIs.
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, GKE and serverless deployments.
  • Data & Messaging: Firestore (NoSQL), Spanner, MySQL, Pub/Sub, HTTP APIs.
  • Observability: Splunk (logging/search), AppDynamics (APM), structured logging with MDC.
  • Build & CI/CD: Gradle, Jib, Jenkins/Harness pipelines.
  • Integrations: POS systems, delivery platforms, external vendor APIs.
  • Tools: Jira, Lucid, Confluence, BitBucket, Gemini (for AI).

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in eCommerce, fulfillment, delivery, or restaurant technology domains.
  • Familiarity with microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Jenkins, Harness).
  • Knowledge of POS systems.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical systems with strict uptime, latency, and SLA requirements.
  • Experience with AI tools and technology.
  • Python experience.

Skills

Docker
Firestore
Microservices
MySQL
Spring
Spring Boot
Splunk
Agile
Confluence
Google Cloud
HTTP
Java
Jenkins
Jira
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform

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