Java Software Engineer

Salt — Netherlands · Posted ~3 hours ago

Mid Contract Hybrid Visa History ✓ €95/hour

Skills

Java AWS Maven API development Software engineering APIs

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A Java engineering contract role focused on building services, APIs, platform components, and maintaining software through the full development lifecycle.

Highlights

Contract role with flexible hybrid work and responsibility across software development, deployment, and system improvement.

Description

Salt is currently hiring a Java Software Engineer for a client of ours in Amsterdam. Software Engineer (Java/AWS) – Hybrid/Amsterdam Hourly rate: €95 (kvk/zzp needed) Duration: 3 months Start: ASAP What you will do Build and maintain Java applications, services, libraries and platform components.Design and evolve SDKs, APIs and experimentation services.Own software through deployment, monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement.Evaluate technical and architectural options and contribute to engineering decisions.Improve systems through refactoring, automation, performance optimisation and quality improvements.Collaborate with engineers, product owners and stakeholders; participate in on-call when required.What you bring 3–5 years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.Strong production Java experience, including testing and dependency management with Maven.Experience with service ownership, monitoring, deployment and production operations.Strong understanding of software design, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.Clear communication and strong problem-solving skills.Required Technical Skills Java and Spring Boot or a similar service framework.AWS Lambda, Kubernetes or EKS.Kafka, Protobuf, Kinesis, S3 and event-driven architectures.SDK, library or API design, including backward compatibility.