Full Stack Java Engineer
Strategic Staffing Solutions · CHARLOTTE, NC
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Jun 28, 2026
CHARLOTTE, NC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract engineering role focused on building and deploying cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise applications. Day-to-day work spans backend development in Java and Spring Boot, frontend work in React, event-driven integration via Kafka, and running workloads on container platforms such as Cloud Foundry or OpenShift. Suits an experienced full-stack engineer comfortable across the entire delivery lifecycle in an Agile team.
Senior level · 5+ years · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 150 people in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–240
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 $135,920 (middle half $107,680–$165,050).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD states '5–7 years of hands-on Java development experience' under Required Qualifications; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the stated minimum for overall professional experience, also the lower bound of the Java-specific range). Java's years demanded is set to 5 accordingly.
Cloud platform experience is a hard gate but the JD explicitly accepts Cloud Foundry, OpenShift (OCP), Kubernetes, or 'similar platforms' as interchangeable — Cloud Foundry is listed as the primary with the others captured as alternatives.
Docker and Kubernetes appear under the Preferred Qualifications section ('containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes'), so they are marked preferred despite Kubernetes also appearing in the required cloud-platform list as an acceptable substitute.
Git and Agile/Scrum appear in the 'Desired Technical Skills' section at the bottom; Agile/Scrum is also explicitly required in the Required Qualifications body text, so it is marked required. Git appears only in the Desired section and is marked preferred.
LLMs (Generative AI / LLM integration) and AI agent/agentic workflow experience are listed under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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