Lead / Senior Backend Java Developer role Agentic AI (26-02077) -

Note

We are looking for candidates who are primarily hands-on, dedicating approximately 70–80% of their time to engineering, architecture, and design, with the remaining 10–20% focused on technical leadership, including code reviews, establishing coding standards, mentoring developers, and guiding technical decisions.

Title - Lead / Senior Backend Java Developer role Agentic AI

Location & Openings

New York, NY - 3 openings || Job ID: 310403-1

Jersey City, NJ - 2 openings || Job ID: 310694-1

Wilmington, DE - 1 opening || Job ID

310693-1

All the role are 6 months contract to hire.

Positions are Mix of 602 & 603 Conversions

For experience level

• 603 roles: approximately 7–12 years
• 602 roles: approximately 4–6 years

Skill area

What a strong candidate should be able to explain

Java

Write working code and explain concurrency, collections, JVM behaviour and error handling.

Spring Boot / APIs

Design API contracts, validation, authentication, exception handling and versioning.

Kafka

Explain partitioning, offsets, consumer groups, duplicate processing, retries and message ordering.

System design

Design a scalable microservice-based application and explain its bottlenecks and trade-offs.

AWS

Explain actual services used, architecture, deployment, monitoring, IAM and troubleshooting.

Resiliency

Explain timeouts, retries with backoff, circuit breakers, idempotency and graceful degradation.

Performance

Discuss latency, throughput, connection pools, database indexes, caching and load testing.

Agentic AI

Describe an actual agent workflow, tools, state management, failure handling and evaluation.

Technical leadership

Explain architecture ownership, mentoring, code reviews and production decision-making.

Job Description

• Expert in Core Java and design technique as well as experience working across large environments with multiple operating systems/infrastructure for large-scale programs (e.g., Expert Engineers) starting to be firm-wide resources working on projects across Client
• Is multi-skilled with expertise across software development lifecycle and toolset
• May be recognized as a leader in Agile and cultivating teams working in Agile frameworks
• Sought out as coach for at least one technical skill
• Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, resiliency, security
• Stays abreast of cutting-edge technologies/trends and uses experience to influence application of those technologies/trends to support the business; may give speeches and outside the firm, writes articles.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

Additional Skills

• Advanced Java development experience
• Hands-on development of complex Spring applications
• Building and supporting APIs at scale
• AWS, Terraform, Grafana, Splunk
• Full SDLC ownership
• CI/CD, resiliency, security
• Knowledge of AI models and ability to develop apps using models (Claude, GPT etc.).

About Us

InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007 and offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 19 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy solving complex problems with technology. We recognize that our employees and our clients are our strengths as the diverse talents and opportunities they bring to the table enable us to grow as a global platform and they are causally linked with our success. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services, etc. We make reasonable accommodations for clients and employees and we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute including race, religion, color, national origin, gender sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or marital status. We also are a Google Cloud partner company. We align strategy with execution and provide secure service solutions by developing and using the latest technologies that thrive our resources to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it convenient for our clients to do business with InterSources Inc. Our teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven client experiences that put the users first, providing an unparalleled experience. This results in strengthening the core technologies of clients, enabling them to scale with flexibility, create seamless digital experiences and build lifelong relationships.