SPRING BOOT – TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

FuntoNetwork IT Consulting
Empowering Businesses with Innovative IT Solutions

Position: Spring Boot Technical Specialist (Handson SME)
Department: Software Development Center of Excellence
Location: San Leandro CA (Hybrid 3 days onsite per week)
Type: Contract FullTime (40 hours/week)
Reports To: Engagement Manager (FuntoNetwork) / Client Chief Architect
Tech Stack: Spring Boot Java 17 MongoDB Oracle Kafka Kubernetes OpenShift (OCP) BDD Git Copilot AI Tools

Regional Strategy: East Bay Engineering Center of Excellence

This role is a senior subject matter expert position embedded at a premier client site in San Leandro CA. The client is building a nextgeneration cloudnative platform and requires a deep specialist in Spring Boot who can serve as the goto authority for architecture design and complex problem resolution. This is not a traditional architect role we need a handson SME who writes code daily mentors engineers and drives technical excellence. The East Bay location offers a collaborative enterprisefocused environment with close proximity to client executives and engineering leadership.

Location Requirement:

• Must reside within reasonable daily commute to San Leandro CA (East Bay). Local candidates only.

Why This Role

• Define technical strategy for a flagship platform.
• Influence tooling frameworks and developer productivity.
• Work with emerging technologies (Git Copilot AIassisted development).

About FuntoNetwork

Our Technical Specialist practice embeds elite engineers into client organizations to solve their most challenging technical problems. These individuals are recognized experts in their domain combining deep product knowledge with strong communication skills and a consultancy mindset. As a Spring Boot Technical Specialist you will be trusted to make critical architectural decisions conduct design reviews and elevate the overall engineering capability of the client team.

Position Overview

We are seeking a 15 year veteran with unparalleled expertise in Spring Boot and the Java ecosystem to join a highperforming team modernizing a missioncritical financial platform. You will work alongside architects developers and DevOps engineers to define and implement best practices for Spring Boot microservices container orchestration on OpenShift event streaming with Kafka and polyglot persistence (MongoDB Oracle) . You will champion BehaviorDriven Development (BDD) and leverage AI tools (Git Copilot) to accelerate development. This role requires a handson contributor who is comfortable coding debugging and prototyping not just diagramming. Excellent communication skills are essential as you will interface with client leadership and present technical recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary subject matter expert for Spring Boot and related technologies.
• Handson Development: Write highquality productionready code; lead by example.
• Architecture & Design: Define microservice boundaries API contracts data models and integration patterns.
• Mentoring: Coach and mentor junior and senior developers through pair programming code reviews and brownbag sessions.
• Framework Standardisation: Establish coding standards project templates and reusable libraries.
• Performance Tuning: Optimize Spring Boot applications for low latency and high throughput.
• DevOps Integration: Collaborate with platform teams to refine OpenShift deployment strategies CI/CD pipelines and monitoring.
• Innovation: Evaluate and introduce new tools including Git Copilot AIassisted development and advanced BDD frameworks.
• Documentation: Produce architectural decision records (ADRs) runbooks and knowledge base articles.
• Client Advisory: Partner with client architects to align technical direction with business goals.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Experience: Minimum 15 years of professional software development experience with at least 10 years focused on Spring / Spring Boot in enterprise environments.

Technical Proficiency:

• Java: Expert in Java 17 (records sealed classes pattern matching streams).
• Spring Boot: Deep mastery of Spring Boot internals autoconfiguration custom starters actuator and security.
• Microservices: Proven experience designing largescale microservices ecosystems including service discovery distributed tracing and resilience patterns (circuit breakers retries).
• Kafka: Extensive handson with Kafka clients Kafka Streams exactlyonce semantics and integration with Spring Cloud Stream.
• MongoDB: Advanced schema design indexing strategies aggregation pipelines and transaction management.
• Oracle: Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills; experience with Oracle RAC and performance tuning.
• OpenShift / Kubernetes: Deep understanding of container orchestration; experience deploying Spring Boot apps on OCP customizing Helm charts and troubleshooting pod/network issues.
• BDD: Expertise in Cucumber SpecFlow or JBehave; ability to drive a BDD culture from requirements to automated tests.
• AI Tools: Handson experience with GitHub Copilot Tabnine or similar AI pair programmers; ability to evaluate and integrate AI tooling into the development workflow.

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills able to convey complex technical concepts to executives.
• Strong mentorship and coaching abilities.
• Strategic thinker with pragmatic execution focus.
• Adaptable and open to new ideas; continuous learner.

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field; Masters degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services domain experience payments trading risk or compliance.
• Contributions to opensource Spring projects.
• Spring Professional Certification from VMware.
• OpenShift certification (Red Hat Certified Specialist).
• Experience with GraphQL gRPC or RSocket.
• Knowledge of event sourcing and CQRS with Axon Framework.
• Previous consulting or technical advisory roles.

Why Join FuntoNetwork

• Elite Status: Be recognized as a toptier expert in your field.
• High Impact: Directly influence the success of a major transformation program.
• CuttingEdge Tools: Work with AIassisted development modern Java and cloudnative platforms.
• Thought Leadership: Opportunity to speak at conferences author white papers and lead internal guilds.
• Compensation: Topofmarket hourly rate and benefits.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly Rate: $80 $100/hour (W2) commensurate with experience and demonstrated expertise.
• Weekly Payroll with direct deposit.
• Benefits Package: Medical dental vision 401(k) with match paid holidays accrued sick leave.
• Commuter Benefits: Pretax transit/parking.
• Professional Development: Unlimited access to OReilly Learning certification vouchers conference speaking opportunities.

Application Process

We are seeking a true Spring Boot authority.

To apply please submit:

1. Resume detailing 15 years of experience with explicit emphasis on Spring Boot Kafka MongoDB OpenShift and BDD.
2. Cover letter addressing: Describe a time you served as the technical authority for a complex Spring Boot migration or modernization. How did you gain the trust of the client and drive adoption of best practices
3. Current location and onsite availability confirmation.
4. HackerRank readiness confirmation.

Submit your complete application package to:
Samuel Andoh Account Manager
Email:
Subject Line: Spring Boot Technical Specialist Your Name San Leandro

Visa Status: No H1B sponsorship available. Must be U.S. Citizen Green Card holder or possess unrestricted work authorization (W2/Independent Consultant only).

Interview Process (Mandatory):

1. HackerRank Assessment Advanced Java Spring Boot microservices design. FIRST STEP.
2. TP1 Panel Interview Deep dive on Spring internals Kafka OpenShift BDD (90 min video).
3. TP2 Prep Call Customer discussion readiness review.
4. Customer Interview Panels available to close same day.
5. FacetoFace Client Round Inperson interview at San Leandro client site. Mandatory.

Work Environment & Expectations

• Schedule: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week (clientspecific) 2 days remote.
• Location: San Leandro CA.
• Dress Code: Business casual.
• Tools: IntelliJ IDEA VS Code Git OpenShift Console Kafka CLI Jira Confluence.