Java Full Stack Engineer
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design build and operate a modern enterprise platform for unstructured data ingestion intelligent processing and AI-enabled user experiences. This is a hands-on full-stack engineering role requiring strong expertise in Java Spring Boot Angular Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and modern AI development tools. You will deliver secure scalable backend services and intuitive web interfaces while integrating AI capabilities into reliable production workflows.
As a Senior Platform Engineer you will contribute across the complete product lifecyclefrom UI design and API development to cloud architecture deployment observability security and operational support. You will collaborate with product UX data engineering and AI/ML teams and help establish engineering standards through design reviews code reviews and technical mentoring.
Responsibilities
As a Platform Engineer you will balance hands-on architecture and coding with technical mentorship driving engineering standards MLOps best practices Platform reliability and cross-team alignment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Full-Stack Platform Engineering
- Design and develop responsive accessible and maintainable platform user interfaces using Angular TypeScript HTML and CSS.
- Build secure scalable microservices and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot with clear contracts between frontend and backend components.
- Own features end to end including solution design coding automated testing deployment production monitoring troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
- Conduct design and code reviews establish reusable engineering patterns and mentor engineers on full-stack and cloud-native development practices.
2. GCP Platform Architecture & Engineering
- Design cloud-native solutions on GCP using services such as Cloud Run Google Kubernetes Engine Cloud Functions Pub/Sub Cloud Tasks Workflows Cloud Scheduler API management and load balancing.
- Engineer data and application integrations using Cloud Storage Cloud SQL BigQuery Secret Manager IAM networking logging monitoring and security controls.
- Build resilient observable and cost-efficient services with appropriate scaling fault tolerance retry disaster recovery and performance patterns.
3. AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities
- Integrate current AI and generative AI capabilities into platform workflows using Vertex AI Gemini models model APIs embeddings vector search retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based patterns where appropriate.
- Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools effectively for design coding testing documentation and troubleshooting while applying secure-development and human-review controls.
- Implement prompt management evaluation guardrails observability responsible AI practices and output validation for production AI features.
4. Platform Reliability
- Drive platform availability performance security accessibility operational readiness cost optimization and production support across frontend backend cloud and AI components.
- Develop automated unit integration API UI security and performance tests and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
Experience: 8 years of progressive software or platform engineering experience including substantial hands-on delivery of enterprise full-stack applications and cloud-native platforms.
- Full-Stack Engineering:
- Expert-level Java and Spring Boot development including microservices REST APIs security testing performance tuning and production troubleshooting.
- Strong Angular and TypeScript expertise including component architecture state management reusable UI patterns responsive design accessibility and automated testing.
- Solid understanding of relational databases SQL API integration authentication and authorization and distributed-system design.
- Google Cloud Platform:
- Exceptional hands-on proficiency across GCP compute serverless container messaging workflow storage database networking IAM observability security and cost-management services.
- Proven ability to select appropriate GCP services design production architectures automate provisioning and diagnose complex cloud issues.
- AI and GenAI Engineering:
- Strong practical knowledge of current AI tools and services including Vertex AI Gemini or comparable foundation models AI coding assistants embeddings vector databases RAG prompt engineering evaluation guardrails and agentic workflows.
- Experience integrating AI services into enterprise applications with attention to data privacy security responsible AI reliability latency and cost.
- DevOps & Engineering Excellence:
- Strong experience with Git Docker Kubernetes CI/CD automated testing code-quality tooling observability and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Excellent analytical communication collaboration and technical leadership skills with the ability to work effectively across product UX platform data security and AI/ML teams.
Qualifications
Experience building enterprise platforms for document ingestion search workflow automation data products or AI-assisted user experiences.
Knowledge of Python and common AI/ML frameworks in addition to the primary Java and Angular stack.
Google Cloud certifications or demonstrated equivalent expertise in cloud architecture application development DevOps data engineering or machine learning.
Experience in automotive manufacturing or another large-scale regulated enterprise environment.
Required Experience:
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