Java Developer

Imagine designing and building the very core of secure digital experiences for millions of users worldwide, where your code directly safeguards and empowers people at a massive scale. Aquent is proud to partner with a leading financial services organization at the forefront of digital transformation to find a talented engineer ready to shape the future of digital identity and access management. In this role, you will leverage cutting-edge cloud technologies and AI-assisted development to deliver high-performance, mission-critical platforms, making a tangible and lasting impact on the global digital ecosystem from day one.

About the Partner

Aquent has partnered with a premier financial services organization dedicated to empowering individuals and institutions through innovative technology and robust security. This organization builds the mission-critical platforms that ensure secure, high-performance interactions daily. By joining this team, you will contribute to a dynamic, security-sensitive environment where innovation meets scale, directly driving the future of financial technology.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a visionary and passionate engineer to design, build, and operate next-generation access management platforms. In this pivotal role, you will own critical services, push the boundaries of system performance, and champion modern development practices. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will deliver seamless, secure experiences that protect millions of users worldwide while continuously growing your technical expertise in a highly collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Java services with a strong focus on REST-based APIs and security.
• Build cloud-native, horizontally scalable services deployed across public cloud platforms.
• Secure APIs using advanced authentication and authorization flows, including OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
• Implement API-first designs with stringent contract discipline to ensure backward compatibility.
• Construct and operate highly resilient systems designed for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and rapid recovery, meeting strict SLAs for latency, throughput, and availability.
• Apply advanced resilience patterns such as timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Participate actively in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Utilize CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Own the entire build-deploy-run lifecycle, including comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Work with containerized workloads and implement modern deployment strategies like blue/green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate feature delivery, enhance code quality, and improve test coverage.
• Collaborate seamlessly with platform, security, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and product teams to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions.

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of strong Java expertise, with proven experience building production-grade, highly reliable, and performant services.
• 6+ years of hands-on API development experience, specifically with RESTful services and robust API security implementations.
• Demonstrated cloud deployment experience on public cloud platforms.
• 2+ years of solid experience with critical Access Management protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAML 2.0.
• Proven track record of building and operating high-criticality systems that adhere to strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, concurrency, performance optimization techniques, and system resiliency.
• Extensive experience with observability tools and practices (metrics, logs, traces) and effective production troubleshooting methodologies.