Java Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend microservices using Python, Java and Spring Boot
- Build and integrate APIs (both GraphQL and REST) for scalable service communication
- Deploy and manage services on Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
- Work with Google Cloud Spanner (Postgres dialect) and pub/sub tools like Confluent Kafka (or similar)
- Automate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD
- Design and implement AI-driven microservices
- Collaborate with Data Scientists and MLOps teams to integrate ML Models
- Implement NLP pipelines
- Enable continuous learning and model retraining workflows using Vertex AI or Kubeflow on GCP
- Enable observability and reliability of AI decisions by logging model predictions, confidence scores and fallbacks into data lakes or monitoring tools
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot
- 2+ years working with APIs (GraphQL and REST) in microservices architectures
- 2+ years’ experience integrating or consuming ML/AI models in production environments (e.g. RESTful ML APIs, TensorFlow Serving or Vertex AI Endpoints)
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data (e.g. Rx Claim metadata, clinical documents, NLP processing).
- Familiarity with ML model lifecycle - from data ingestion, training, deployment, to real-time inference (MLOPS)
- 2+ years hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
- 2+ years working with pub/sub tools like Kafka or similar
- 2+ years’ experience with databases (Postgres or similar)
- 2+ years’ experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar)
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts; experience deploying services on GKE is a plus
- Strong understanding of microservice best practices and distributed systems
- Familiarity with Vertex AI, Kubeflow or similar AI platforms on GCP for model training and serving
- Understanding of GenAI use cases, LLM prompt engineering and agentic orchestration (e.g. LangChain, transformers)
- Experience deploying Python-based ML Services into Java microservice ecosystems (via REST, gRPC or sidecar patterns)
- Knowledge of claim adjudication, Rx domain logic or healthcare specific workflow automation
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)