Full Stack Developer

Full Stack Developer (Java / React / Azure)

Location:
Alpharetta, GA — Onsite only; remote candidates will not be considered

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Integration Engineer to help build the next generation of video, audio, and image-capture experiences for our digital reporting platform. In this role, you will design and implement backend and frontend solutions that integrate with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Speech, securely manage media in the cloud, and support intelligent, real-time data extraction capabilities. You will collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, Cloud, DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deliver secure, scalable, compliant, and AI-enabled solutions within a modern Java and Azure environment.

What You'll Do
Design and lead the development of enterprise-scale applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and Node.js. Define and implement scalable microservices architectures supporting media processing, AI-driven workflows, and real-time integrations. Lead the design and development of services that support video, audio, image, and document ingestion, processing, and storage. Develop integrations with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, and other AI/ML services for transcription, text-to-speech, document intelligence, and advanced data extraction. Design secure, resilient, highly available, cloud-native solutions using Azure services such as Blob Storage, Kubernetes, App Services, Azure Functions, and containerized workloads. Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices for security, observability, performance, scalability, and reliability. Drive API strategy and ensure scalable, secure, and reusable RESTful and event-driven integrations across platforms. Collaborate with Product, UX, Engineering, DevOps, Security, Infrastructure, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions aligned with business objectives. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to development teams while remaining hands-on with critical implementations. Lead architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and technical decision-making processes. Ensure compliance with security, governance, privacy, and regulatory requirements across the application ecosystem. Drive performance optimization, scalability improvements, and operational excellence for both real-time and batch-processing workloads. Partner with Cloud and Platform Engineering teams to establish CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and DevSecOps best practices. Must-Have Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline. 10+ years of software engineering experience, including enterprise application design and development. 8+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot, including the design and implementation of microservices architectures. 8+ years of experience with React and modern frontend architectures, including component-based design and state-management frameworks. Strong experience with Node.js, RESTful APIs, API gateways, and event-driven architectures. Proven experience architecting and delivering cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure and/or AWS. Hands-on expertise with Azure services including Storage, App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Cognitive Services, and containerized platforms. Experience integrating AI/ML platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Document Intelligence, Computer Vision, or similar technologies. Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, and high-availability design. Experience designing secure applications, authentication and authorization frameworks, identity management, and data-protection strategies. Expertise in modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, observability, and DevSecOps. Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple teams. Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with developers, architects, product managers, business analysts, QA teams, and executive leadership. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to design innovative and efficient solutions. Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Agile development methodologies. Ability to balance strategic architectural thinking with hands-on technical execution. Nice to Have Experience building solutions involving audio, video, image processing, and media-streaming platforms. Experience with WebSockets, event streaming, Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, or other real-time communication frameworks. Experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools. Experience designing AI-powered enterprise solutions and Generative AI applications. Experience with Kubernetes (A