Senior Java Developer with AI Experience at Glint Tech Solutions LLC
Chicago, IL
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Jul 23, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on senior individual contributor role building and modernizing an enterprise Notifications platform, with responsibilities spanning cloud-native Java backend services, event-driven integrations via Apache Camel, and production-grade AI/GenAI features such as LLM integration, RAG pipelines, and semantic search on AWS. The role suits an experienced Java engineer with a strong background in microservices and a proven track record of shipping AI capabilities in real production environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 45 people in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–65
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,335 (middle half $106,829–$171,337).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting requires a Bachelor's degree 'or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The 8+ years of Java/Spring Boot experience is stated as a mandatory skill with a specific year count; the overall years minimum is also set to 8 reflecting the overall engineering experience gate.
Apache Camel is listed as required with 'or equivalent integration frameworks' — no specific named alternative is given; it is treated as a hard gate on integration framework capability.
The AWS requirement enumerates many specific services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Lambda, EKS, ECS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, AmazonMQ) all under the mandatory skills block; each is captured as a required skill.
Observability tools (Dynatrace, ELK Stack, CloudWatch) are listed together in the mandatory section as interchangeable options; Dynatrace is the primary with the others as alternatives.
Twilio is listed under Nice-to-Have alongside 'similar communication/messaging platforms'.
MLOps/LLMOps is listed under Nice-to-Have; captured as preferred.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week onsite in Chicago); remote=false as it is not fully remote. The posting specifies locals only.
No compensation range is provided in the posting.
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