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Senior Java Engineer L2

at Publicis Sapient

calle 93b No. 13 Bogota 110221 Colombia, onsite, senior

seen 49d ago

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  • JVM
  • Unix
  • Java
  • Maven
  • Java 21
  • JWT
  • Kafka
  • JConsole
  • Java Collections Framework
  • OAuth
  • REST API
  • Core Java
  • JMX
  • Linux
  • JVisualVM
  • Java 17
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Spring Security

About the role

Your Impact

* Join a large-scale financial services platform, supporting business-critical systems with high standards of reliability, security, and performance.

* Play a key role in the ongoing modernization of enterprise Java applications, including:

* Migrating legacy Java services to modern Java versions (Java 17 / Java 21)

* Refactoring existing codebases to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability

* Contributing to architectural evolution toward modern, cloud-native patterns

* Design and enhance high-performance backend systems, supporting both new features and platform evolution.

* Collaborate directly with senior client stakeholders in a highly autonomous, client-facing environment.

* Contribute to platform stability by participating in production-related activities, while keeping development and modernization as the primary focus.

What they are looking for

* Strong hands-on experience with Java in enterprise-scale systems, ideally within regulated or high-availability environments.

* Proven experience working with modern Java versions, including Java 17 and Java 21.

* Solid understanding of Core Java fundamentals, including:

* Java Collections Framework (List, Set, Map, concurrency-aware collections)

* Object-oriented principles and enterprise design patterns

* Strong background in concurrency and multithreading, including:

* ExecutorService, thread pools, synchronization strategies

* Designing thread-safe, high-performance systems

* Experience optimizing backend performance across:

* REST APIs

* SQL queries and data access layers

* Microservices interactions and data processing flows

* Strong understanding of REST API concepts, including:

* HTTP methods, status codes, idempotency

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* API versioning, error handling, and performance considerations

* Hands-on experience implementing security best practices, including:

* Authentication and authorization with Spring Security

* OAuth and JWT

* Proven experience in JVM analysis and tuning, including:

* Memory management and garbage collection

* Thread dumps vs. heap dumps: when to use each and how to analyze them

* Performance troubleshooting using tools such as JConsole, JVisualVM, or similar

* Understanding and practical use of JMX

* Strong debugging skills, including:

* Local debugging and remote debugging of Java applications

* Structured debugging methodologies for production and non-production environments

* Familiarity with basic Unix/Linux commands for troubleshooting and system inspection.

* Solid understanding of build and dependency management, including:

* Maven concepts (lifecycle, dependencies, plugins, profiles)

* Familiarity with NoSQL databases, with MongoDB preferred.

* Understanding of event-driven architectures, including Kafka or similar messaging platforms.

* Experience working in AWS-based environments (strong plus), with exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments as a bonus.

* Strong communication skills, able to explain technical decisions and findings clearly in discussions with senior stakeholders.

Set Yourself Apart With

* Experience modernizing enterprise Java platforms in financial or regulated industries.

* Demonstrated JVM tuning and performance optimization work.

* Background designing high-throughput, secure, event-driven backend systems.

* Exposure to cloud-native, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures.

* Comfort leveraging AI tools to improve engineering productivity.

* Experience working directly with senior stakeholders in client-facing roles.