About the role
Engagement Type: Full time - Contractor
About CodeRoad
CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.
Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.
Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?
* High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure: We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.
* Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity: Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.
* Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery: We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.
* High-Trust Employee Experience: You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.
Key Responsibilities
* Architect & Build Scalable Systems: Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend microservices and responsive web interfaces handling billions of item identities.
* Anchor API & Data Engineering: Take ownership of end-to-end feature delivery, designing resilient RESTful APIs, optimizing Oracle PL/SQL and MySQL database schemas, and leading legacy-to-modern architecture migrations.
* Drive System Reliability & Observability: Diagnose complex production bottlenecks, tune low-level application performance, and establish proactive monitoring utilizing New Relic, Splunk, and JMeter load testing.
* Champion Engineering & Delivery Standards: Enforce rigorous code quality standards, lead comprehensive technical reviews, and optimize automated CI/CD deployment pipelines via Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.
* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with U.S. product managers, architects, and UI/UX designers to translate multi-faceted business roadmaps into clean, production-ready technical solutions.
* Leverage Next-Gen Developer Workflows: Integrate AI-assisted engineering tools and best practices to accelerate velocity, optimize code refactoring (including ExtJS to React transitions), and elevate team execution.
What You Bring
* 4+ Years of Professional Experience: Proven background delivering enterprise-grade solutions as a FullStack Engineer with a heavy backend orientation.
* Strong Backend Core: Deep expertise in Java (including Java 21) and the Spring/Spring Boot ecosystem, paired with advanced proficiency in relational data engineering (Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL).
* Modern & Legacy Frontend Fluency: Solid hands-on experience using modern JavaScript (ES6+) and ReactJS, with the versatility to navigate legacy frontends (ExtJS).
* Cloud & DevOps Acumen: Practical exposure to cloud infrastructure in AWS, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation through Jenkins.
* Ownership & Modern Workflows: High accountability, proactive problem-solving mindset, and hands-on familiarity utilizing AI-assisted developer tooling to enhance software delivery.
* Advanced English Communication: Mandatory full professional fluency (written and verbal) for direct, synchronous technical collaboration with U.S. stakeholders.
* Valued Extras (Nice to Have): Background in supply chain/item-chain management, event-driven messaging (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
What You’ll Love
* USA Contractor / 100% Remote
* Competitive Pay (USD)
* Holidays Off & Paid Time Off
* Health insurance assistance program
* Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.
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