Java Engineer
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$40-45 Hourly
Start Date:
May 4, 2026
We’re looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our team. You’ll be a key player in building and maintaining cutting-edge web applications​. This position requires a problem-solver with solid experience in modern technologies, including: designing, building, and integrating complex software solutions.
Major Purpose:
- This position works with the engineering team to analyze requirements, implement and integrate features, coordinate with others, and write and test code to deliver moderately complex functionality on a complete product or portion of a product it supports.
- This position works on continuous improvement projects (performance, quality, cost) based on specialized knowledge of engineering applications.
- This position leads to the resolution of production issues in a timely manner based on SLAs. Resolution of medium to difficult technical issues. Experience in implementation and production support and incident management as well
Major Duties:
- Design, Develops, codes, configures, and tests programs and systems.
- Collaborates with other stakeholders and team members
- Ability to manage many competing priorities/requests in a fast-paced environment
- Contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and pairing programming
Required Skills
- Project experience in customer-facing web application development (B2B)
- 3+ years of experience in web application development
- Experience in Java 8 (or above), SpringBoot – candidate must be able to showcase and discuss proven work projects
- Microservice architecture & RESTful web services
- Heavy emphasis on maintaining application in a production supported environment
- Unit Test frameworks
- Database – PostgreSQL
- Code Repository: GitHub
- Continuous Integration tool configuration and operation Github Action
- Experience working in an Agile-led team environment. familiarity with Jira
- Experienced in AWS platform and related cloud technologies (AWS certification preferred)
- Nice to have experience – Typescript, ReactJS, Redux
- Monitoring & Logging: Familiarity with tools like Datadog or AWS CloudWatch for observability and debugging.
This role is onsite in Moline, IL. Talent must be able to work onsite 4 days a week.
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Client Description
Aquent Studios is a global creative studio that delivers scale, speed and efficiency to the world’s most recognized brands. We create the work that matters the most to them—work that has a real impact on their business. As an Aquent Studio team member, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the largest and most influential companies in the world, solving design challenges and extending their brands across tactic types and platforms, including digital design, UI/UX, video, motion, content, print design, web development, and more. If you want to do work that matters in a collaborative setting that values ingenuity and personal growth, you have found the right place!
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Other Requirements
Compensation Range: $40 – $45 hrly
The range provided is our reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location.