Full Stack Developer (2-4 years)

Hudson Manpower

Chicago, UShybrid$30k-$40k/yrPosted Jul 23, 2026
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Skills

java

About the role

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team focused on building and optimizing scalable, high-throughput enterprise systems. This role is ideal for a senior engineer with deep Core Java expertise and strong experience designing and supporting distributed systems where performance, reliability, resiliency, and scalability are mission-critical.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance Core Java applications.

Lead architecture discussions around scalability, throughput, latency, and resiliency.

Analyze, troubleshoot, and improve application performance across distributed environments.

Develop optimized, maintainable, and scalable software components and unit tests.

Conduct code reviews and identify opportunities for optimization and risk mitigation.

Support deployments, release management, and production stability initiatives.

Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges.

Tune applications for multi-threaded and high-concurrency environments.

Drive engineering best practices, design patterns, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead technical projects and influence engineering direction across teams.

Required Qualifications

2-4 years of hands-on Core Java development experience.

Strong expertise in:

Multi-threading

Concurrent programming

Shared memory and synchronization

JVM internals and Garbage Collection tuning

JNI and NIO

Concurrent data structures and collections

Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Experience with TCP/IP networking, including TCP and UDP protocols.

Experience building scalable, high-throughput distributed systems.

Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills.

Experience participating in architecture and system design discussions.

Ability to balance reliability, scalability, and performance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in financial services, trading platforms, or derivatives systems.

Exposure to cloud technologies.

Knowledge of fault tolerance and redundancy patterns.

Experience with BDD testing frameworks.

Experience supporting low-latency systems.

Compensation

This Full-Stack Engineer role pays $30k-$40k/yr. Within typical range for full-stack engineer roles in United States.

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