Full-time

Java Engineer

Posted by Prairie Consulting Services • Chicago, Illinois, United States

📍 Chicago, Illinois 🕒 February 28, 2026

About the Role

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 (...

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