Full-Time

Java Fullstack Engineer

Multiple Teams

Posted on 8/16/2025

Photon

Photon

Global AI and digital solutions provider

Compensation Overview

$40k - $142k/yr

Dallas, TX, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Git
SQL
Java
Microservices
AWS
Jenkins
REST APIs
Confluence
Oracle
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
  • 10–12 years of progressive experience in software development, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
  • Strong expertise in: Java (Java 8/11/17), Spring Boot, REST API development, microservices architecture.
  • AWS Cloud Services: Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, API Gateway, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy.
  • Databases: Oracle, Amazon RDS (design, performance tuning, query optimization).
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Git, Jenkins, AWS pipelines, build automation, deployment pipelines.
  • Scheduling: Cron jobs, event-driven tasks.
  • Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and clean code principles.
  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end solution design for new features and applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
  • Conduct architectural reviews in collaboration with domain experts and align with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Maintain technology roadmaps for Java-based systems and propose modernization strategies (e.g., microservices, containerization).
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging tools, frameworks, and patterns into the technology stack.
  • Drive proof-of-concepts (POCs) for new initiatives and technologies.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code in Java (Java 8/11/17) using Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices patterns.
  • Implement AWS Lambda functions, cron jobs, and other serverless components for event-driven architectures.
  • Develop and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures for Oracle and Amazon RDS.
  • Participate in debugging, performance tuning, and incident resolution for production systems.
  • Design and maintain AWS CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure for high availability, security, and disaster recovery.
  • Integrate automated testing into the pipeline (unit, integration, and performance tests).
  • Monitor application health using AWS CloudWatch, setting up alerts and dashboards.
  • Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, security best practices, and performance optimization.
  • Define and enforce coding guidelines, branching strategies, and release processes.
  • Collaborate with QA to ensure test coverage and defect resolution before releases.
  • Maintain project documentation and knowledge base in Confluence.
  • Coach and mentor developers on design patterns, cloud best practices, and clean coding principles.
  • Provide constructive feedback and career development support to team members.
  • Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Architects to translate business requirements into technical designs.
  • Engage with DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure smooth releases.
  • Act as a point of escalation for technical issues and blockers within the team.
  • Communicate technical risks, dependencies, and timelines to senior management.
Desired Qualifications
  • AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, Developer, or DevOps Engineer).
  • Knowledge of performance monitoring, profiling tools, and cloud cost optimization.
  • Experience in multi-region, high-availability application deployments.
  • Exposure to front-end frameworks (React, Angular) for full-stack context.

Photon helps large enterprises accelerate AI adoption and digital growth. It delivers AI management, digital innovation, product design thinking, and engineering to implement and run AI solutions, scale products and experiences, and improve operations. By serving thousands of employees across many countries and working with a sizable portion of the Fortune 100, Photon combines global delivery with a broad skill set to handle billions of daily touchpoints. Its goal is to keep clients agile and future-ready by expanding AI capabilities and digital initiatives across industries.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Generative AI boosts Photon's UX/UI prototyping for Fortune 100 clients.
  • Omnichannel MarTech consolidation expands Photon's Salesforce integrations.
  • AI personalization aligns with Photon's data-driven 1 billion interactions.

What critics are saying

  • Salesforce Einstein GPT undercuts Photon's integrations for Fortune 100 clients.
  • Accenture's Navisite acquisition steals 40% of Photon's Fortune 100 clients.
  • TCS launches rival Digital HyperExpansion in Q1 2026, undercutting pricing.

What makes Photon unique

  • Photon manages 1 billion daily customer interactions via Digital HyperExpansion.
  • Photon deploys 7,500 digital engineers for Fortune 100 infrastructure modernization.
  • Photon excels in vertical-specific consulting for financial services and healthcare.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Performance Bonus

Company News

AiThority
Mar 23rd, 2026
Exein unveils next-generation runtime security to protect the ai-native world.

Exein unveils next-generation runtime security to protect the ai-native world. * Photon blocks cyberattacks before execution across physical AI and IoT, autonomous AI agents and cloud and edge infrastructure * Kernel-level prevention sets a new standard beyond traditional user-space detection * Builds on Exein's position as the world's largest runtime security provider, protecting over two billion devices Mar 23, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 42,872 Exein, the global leader in runtime cybersecurity, unveiled Photon, a preemptive breakthrough solution that blocks cyberattacks at the point of execution. Designed for the AI-native world - where digital and physical systems are now inseparable - Photon marks a fundamental shift in how critical infrastructure protects itself. Unlike traditional cybersecurity solutions that detect threats after compromise - typically operating in user space and relying on a cloud network - Exein's Photon operates directly inside the kernel, preventing malicious execution paths before they can run. By blocking attacks before the point of execution, the technology dramatically reduces latency and eliminates entire classes of threats before damage occurs. If malicious instructions cannot execute, the attack itself cannot take place. This advancement establishes a new category of runtime security designed for systems that cannot be disconnected: physical AI and IoT environments, autonomous AI agents, and local hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure. In these environments, from industrial robotics and critical infrastructure to AI-driven platforms, downtime is not an option, and protection must be more precise and granular, blocking malicious threats without shutting down the entire process. The announcement at the RSA Conference (RSAC) comes as cyber threats increasingly target physical systems. Last month, the Munich Security Report 2026 warned that cyber operations are now engineered to cause real-world disruption, accelerating regulatory intervention after voluntary measures failed to address systemic vulnerabilities. At the same time, the speed of attacks is accelerating dramatically: recent threat intelligence shows average attacker 'breakout times' fell to just 29 minutes in 2025, 65% faster than the previous year, driven in part by AI-assisted automation. Protecting the digital and physical in the AI era Artificial intelligence is already capable of identifying vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure. In the near future, these models will not only detect weaknesses but exploit them autonomously to launch attacks at machine speed. As the scale and sophistication of these attacks grow, traditional runtime security systems that rely on detection alone will no longer be sufficient. Photon introduces a new model of preemptive runtime security designed for this AI-driven environment. Rather than detecting attacks after they begin, it prevents malicious execution paths from running in the first place, blocking threats in real time before they can impact the system. Unlike conventional security tools that operate in user space alongside the applications they protect, Photon operates directly within the kernel, the core of the operating system. By enforcing protection at this foundational layer, rather than merely detecting and stopping attacks, it prevents them from executing in the first place - all in real time. This marks a major milestone as physical and digital systems converge, positioning Photon as a new reference architecture for securing physical AI, agent AI and cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Gianni Cuozzo, Founder and CEO of Exein, said: "In a future where the world is infinitely connected with humanoid robots walking among Aithority, local LLMs powering intelligent edges, autonomous drones reshaping mobility, and billions of new autonomous systems bridging the digital and physical realms, preemptive runtime security represents the new generation of protection, built into the very DNA of every device from the ground up. "Exein was born to make this vision a reality: transforming every connected device into a fortress of security, forging the largest decentralised immune system for digital life - cross-vendor, cross-platform, and cross-system. We stand as the first line of defence between the boundless digital world and the physical one we live in, empowering manufacturers to build inherently safe innovations and already safeguarding over 2 billion devices worldwide."

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