Java Engineer
Prairie Consulting Services
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Senior Server-Side Java Engineer (Event-Driven Systems) | Contract-to-Hire | Remote U.S.
We are hiring for a high-level backend Java engineer to help modernize and scale a mission-critical public safety alerting platform delivering billions of messages annually across SMS, voice, push, and email.
This is not a UI-heavy role. This is deep backend engineering in distributed, high-volume systems.
6-month initial contract - Strong preference for contract-to-hire
Remote (U.S.-based)
Rate based on experience - $70-80+/hr
Some environments require U.S. citizenship + ability to pass FBI/secure background checks
Java Engineer - Technical Environment
• Java 17
• Spring / Spring Boot / REST services
• Event-driven architecture (moving away from polling patterns)
• JSP, Vue.js (...