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About CargoSprint
CargoSprint is made up of a world-class team of highly motivated individuals who are passionate about transforming the cargo industry. We have developed cutting-edge digital solutions that streamline cargo operations, enhance efficiency, and improve the overall experience for everyone involved. Our workplace fosters innovation, collaboration, and the drive to solve industry challenges.
CargoSprint is dedicated to delivering game-changing solutions that connect the cargo industry like never before, and we are looking for driven, enthusiastic people who share our vision of innovation and excellence.
If you think we are a great mutual fit, we want hear from you!
About You
You are passionate about the role and thrive on solving complex problems with a talented team of colleagues who both challenge and support you. You believe in lifelong learning, constantly honing your skills and staying on the cutting edge of technology. Most importantly, you want to engage your talents to make a meaningful difference by revolutionizing the cargo industry.
About the role
We’re hiring a Java Architect to lead architecture and modernization of mission-critical platforms. This is a hands-on role for someone who has built distributed, event-driven systems at scale and can drive AI-enabled engineering across design, delivery, and operations.
This is not a “PowerPoint architect” role — you will code, review, prototype, and lead execution.
What you'll do
- Architecture ownership for modern Java platforms (Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud preferred).
- Design and evolution of distributed, event-driven systems (messaging, sagas, resiliency, eventual consistency).
- Legacy modernization strategy + execution (monolith → modular/microservices via safe, incremental migration).
- Performance and scalability engineering (profiling, tuning, latency/throughput optimization, load testing).
- AI-first engineering (scale what’s already working):
- o Strengthen and standardize existing AI-assisted delivery across teams (coding, review, test creation, analysis)
- o Embed AI into modernization workflows to reduce cycle time, defects, and technical debt
- o Accelerate quality and operations through AI-enabled automation (impact analysis, regression optimization, faster RCA)
- o Improve observability using AI-supported insights (signal detection, log/trace summarization, incident learning loops).
- Cloud architecture on Azure (preferred) with strong reliability, security, and cost discipline.
- Engineering guardrails: architecture patterns, reference designs, quality gates, and secure-by-design principles.
Qualifications (Must-Have)
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years of true architecture ownership
- Proven production experience building distributed, event-driven systems
- Deep expertise in Java (modern Java, concurrency, memory/performance fundamentals)
- Strong AI adoption mindset — you actively use AI tools to improve delivery velocity and quality
- Strong hands-on experience with messaging/eventing patterns (queues/streams, retries, idempotency, DLQs) Kafka / Azure Service Bus / RabbitMQ experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success modernizing legacy enterprise platforms throughincremental migration strategies
- Expert-level performance engineering (profiling, GC tuning, thread/CPU analysis, API + DB tuning).
- Azure architecture experience (AKS, Functions, App Services, APIM, Storage preferred).
Nice-to-Haves (Strong Plus)
- Spring ecosystem depth (Spring Cloud Gateway, Resilience4j, Spring Security, Spring Data)
- Containerization + orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS), service mesh familiarity a plus
- Observability stack experience (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Azure Monitor, ELK)
- Domain-driven design (DDD), CQRS/event sourcing experience in production
- Security engineering practices (OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, threat modeling, secure SDLC.
Compensation and benefits
We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to fuel our team's success.
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
- Future-Ready: 401(k) with company match
- Work Life Balance: Generous flexible PTO program and paid holidays
- Grow With Us: Professional development opportunities
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Does this role sound like the next step in your career?
We’d love to hear from you! If you don’t meet all of the requirements exactly, we encourage you to use your cover letter to tell us about your unique experience—talent comes from many places, and skills are transferable.
Our Commitment to an Extraordinary Work Environment
At CargoSprint, we value diversity and inclusivity. We strive to create a welcoming and supportive community for employees from all backgrounds. Regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, religion, ethnicity, race, or age, you will find a place where you can thrive and be your authentic self.
Our CargoSprint Recruitment Team personally reviews every application.
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