Job Title: Senior Java AI Engineer / Architect
Location: Atlanta,GA
Duration: 10 Months 
Bill Rate: $98/hour (C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

• We are looking for a hands-on Senior Java AI Engineer / Architect with strong expertise in system design, distributed systems, backend engineering, security, and production-grade Generative AI solutions.The ideal candidate must demonstrate individual architectural ownership, independently design scalable and secure systems, and deliver production-ready Java and AI applications.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

1. System Design & Architectural Ownership:

• End-to-end system architecture and technical ownership.
• High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD).
• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• API contracts, data models, and sequence diagrams.
• Distributed system design, scalability, availability, and performance.
• Architecture reviews, trade-off analysis, and production ownership.

2. Distributed Systems & Security:

• Microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka or equivalent messaging.
• Idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and dead-letter queues.
• Outbox / Saga patterns and transaction consistency.
• Authentication and Authorization (AuthN/AuthZ).
• OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, RBAC, and ABAC.
• Resource-level permissions, least privilege, and tenant isolation.
• Capacity planning, horizontal scaling, SLOs/SLIs, tracing, and observability.

3. Java Backend Engineering:

• Java 17/21.
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Hibernate / JPA.
• REST API and microservices development.
• Event-driven architecture and backend integrations.
• SQL and NoSQL database design.
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automated testing.