Freelance Software Developer (Python Engineer) - AI Trainer

Job Title : Java Developer Location : Walnut Creek, CA Type : 6 + Months Rate : $Open (Best Possible) Job Responsibilities :– Drive the design, development and implementation of the core of our Java / J2EE technology platform and web services. Debug issues across multiple layers of the application stack. Drive code quality through unit testing and advocate test-driven development methodologies. Refactor and improve code quality, maintainability and scalability. Evaluate the adoption of new tools and technology. Interface with clients to discover, troubleshoot and resolve integration issues. Lead projects and exert technical influence with team members, increase productivity and effectiveness by sharing domain knowledge and experience. Take ownership of all tasks assigned to you and tasks assigned to engineers working on your projects. REQUIREMENTS :- 6+ years of software development experience in Java/Java EE Extensive engineering experience and a proven track record in e-commerce, enterprise, high performance, large scale web technologies including cloud based APIs and protocols (REST, JSON). Thought leader, hands-on contributor, and decision maker known for solving difficult software engineering problems. Proficient in data structures, algorithms, design patterns and Object Oriented Programming. Experience with one of the major relational databases (MSSQL, Oracle, Postgres) Excellent Java and J2EE coding skills. Experience in payments or high transactional systems. Experience with Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Excellent team player with good analytical, strategic planning and interpersonal and communication skills. Highly motivated, enthusiastic and self-starter Experience with Kafka, NoSQL database is a plus. Exposure to JBoss Fuse, Apache Camel or MuleSoft highly desired. Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools Docker, ECS, S3 etc. Experience building CI/CD pipeline with maven/jenkins/code pipeline. Proficient with API design, Strong in Spring framework and understanding of Microservices. Exposure to API Gateway (Apigee) is a huge plus. BSCS or equivalent, MS preferred Note: If interested please send your updated resume and include your rate/salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us. We look forward to hearing from you at the earliest!

Installing computer equipment at various locations throughout the state. Must have valid the Driver's license and reliable car. Also able to work on weekends and late nights.

We are seeking a highly skilled Payroll Technical Consultant with extensive experience in US Payroll. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in ABAP HR code development and a deep understanding of Core HR and Payroll modules. This role involves designing and developing custom HR-ABAP programs, working with PNP/PNPCE logical databases, and enhancing payroll processes. • Experience: 9-15 years in payroll technical consulting. • ABAP HR Development: Proficient in ABAP HR code development. • Custom Programs: Design and write HR-ABAP custom programs; modify standard programs as needed. • Database Programming: Experience with PNP/PNPCE logical databases and cluster programming for Core HR, payroll, and time management. • Core HR & Payroll Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of Core HR and Payroll modules, including schemas, functions, and operations. • HR Tables/Clusters: Familiarity with HR, Core HR, and Payroll tables/clusters; experience in developing reports/BDC in the HR module. • Payroll Processes: Strong experience in Core HR and payroll processes, including preparing payroll reports. • Reports & Interfaces: Design and develop reports, interfaces, info types, and enhancements. • Team Development: Guide and develop team members to enhance their technical capabilities and productivity. • Forms Experience: Hands-on experience with SMART forms and HR forms. • User Exits & BAPIs: Proficient in user exits, BADi, and BAPI. • OOPS Concept: Strong understanding of object-oriented programming concepts. • Technical Documentation: Experience in requirement gathering, designing technical documents, unit testing, and code review. • Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field. • Proven experience in payroll technical consulting with a focus on US Payroll. • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Design, build, test, and deploy highly scalable customer facing RESTful APIs that can handle traffic and mobile apps - Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business vision into technical design, code and test suite - Partner with other engineers to produce high quality software - Gain a broad understanding of the system/domain and upstream/downstream dependencies - Stay current on technologies and application development best practices Requirements - You have 8+ years of experience as a back-end developer building and deploying RESTful APIs and integrations using Java/Groovy, SpringBoot, Spock, JUnit, Gradle/Maven, SQL/NoSQL databases, MQ, Kafka, GIT - You have a solid understanding of RESTful APIs - You are an expert in building cloud-native applications - You are passionate about developing and maintaining high quality software - You understand how web sites and mobile apps interact with backend APIs - 3+ years working in an agile team - Understanding of CI/CD, Jenkins, JMeter/Gatling, WireMock - Atlassian software development and collaboration tools (BitBucket, Jira etc.)

Drug Hunter is a B2B subscription knowledge base for biotech/pharma R&D scientists that empowers them to discover the medicines of the future. We’re proud to support teams at 200+ of the world’s leading biotech and pharma companies. Our team is seeking an outstanding Head of Product Management who desires an exciting career challenge building the knowledge platform revolutionizing drug discovery. Our mission is to accelerate innovation in the life sciences by connecting R&D teams with the insights they need to make better, faster decisions. Working closely with a broad stakeholder group and initially reporting to the CEO, you will own the full Drug Hunter Web, Mobile, and Database product lines and supporting platforms. Ideal candidates possess big-picture vision yet the drive and attention to detail to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time with customers and evangelizing their needs. You balance strategic thinking with outstanding execution – holding yourself and the team accountable to delivering successful outcomes. Requirements Primary Responsibilities: Develop strategies and execute plans to drive user engagement, customer acquisition and retention. Operate as a player coach; build, lead, and grow a small team of high-output Product Managers and Designers. Analyze, determine and prioritize target customer, end-user, and internal stakeholder needs. Define and communicate product strategies, goals, and roadmaps aligned with company objectives, supported by business analysis, market research, and customer data. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to build momentum and alignment, and shepherd product concepts through execution, validation and adoption. Ensure appropriate customer research, usability testing and rapid prototyping. Document, validate, prioritize and guide product execution within an Agile development environment. Coordinate go-to-market and post-launch activities. Gather customer feedback to validate that the product meets stated metrics. Prioritize and deliver necessary enhancements. Required Experience and Qualifications: 8+ years in technology product management, with at least 5 years expertise managing consumer, media and/or data products. 3+ years building and managing teams of independent-contributor Product Managers. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required. An MBA or advanced degree is desired. Proven track record of full responsibility through the product lifecycle in a fast-paced, start-up/scale-up environment. Has been hands-on shipping highly successful products. Desired, not required (but must be passionate to learn): Experience building products for biotech or pharma audiences and/or background in medicinal chemistry or health sciences. Demonstrable Skills: Leadership. Takes responsibility from inception to outcomes. Determines needs, aligns priorities, delivers to market, measures outcomes, and seeks to build upon success. Customer focused. Deeply understands the market and unmet needs. Loves to create and deliver outstanding products that delight customers and passionate for constant innovation. Highly collaborative. Builds trust and strong cross-functional relationships at all levels, influences without formal authority, pushes back when appropriate, earns respect, and respects the contributions of others. Excellent communicator. Articulates the product strategy and roadmap, structures the problem at hand, experienced and comfortable gaining alignment and in presenting to senior executives. Strategic thinker. Understands business objectives and converts them into clear product plans, follows through with execution. Analytic and results orientated. Uses hard data to assess opportunities, metrics driven, ruthless in prioritization, overcomes obstacles to drive business outcomes. Driven and motivates others. Takes initiative, sets context, identifies options and paths forward, drives for clarity, relentless, hard-working, self-accountable. Understands technology and keeps current with the latest trends. Works with implementation teams to adapt to technical constraints without compromising end-user solutions. Comfortable with ambiguity and challenge. Thrives in a fast-paced environment, concurrently manages multiple initiatives, and remains optimistic. Benefits Drug Hunter takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. Total Compensation includes the following: Competitive salary, variable compensation, and equity Broad range of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees and their dependents Supplemental insurance including disability, cancer, and critical illness Paid parental leave and childcare FSA plan 401(k) + employer match Home office set up stipend for remote employees Learning and development support Generous and flexible vacation We are an equal opportunity employer, which means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Please be aware that Drug Hunter will never request personal information, payment, or sensitive details outside of iSolved or via email. All official communications will come from an @drughunter.com email address or from an approved vendor alias.

BlueFlag is seeking an ambitious, senior-level Cloud Solutions Architect specializing in Azure to join our dynamic team. This opportunity is remote. As a key player in our cloud infrastructure initiatives, you'll have the opportunity to architect, implement, and optimize cloud solutions for large enterprise environments, including a cutting-edge data and analytics platform for the Department of Veterans Affairs. What You'll Do Lead cloud architecture design and solutioning for a large data and analytics platform, with emphasis on Azure-based services including Azure Databricks, Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Azure Cognitive/ML Services. Drive the migration of large, complex workloads from the legacy warehouses and on-premises VA systems into the cloud-based platform, ensuring security, compliance, and performance optimization. Architect data ingestion, processing, and integration patterns using batch, near-real-time (GoldenGate), streaming (Event Hubs), SFTP, and API-based ingestion methods. Support data preparation, wrangling, transformation, enrichment, normalization, and integration pipelines leveraging Databricks, Synapse, and Starburst. Define and implement solution accelerators (e.g., Databricks notebooks, ingestion patterns, reporting and ML workspace templates) to support repeatable, scalable implementations across workstreams. Partner with customer success teams to support onboarding of VA customers, including migration of workgroups with extensive and complex VM/application footprints. Provide architectural guidance for system-to-system integrations using APIs, SHIR (Self-Hosted Integration Runtime), and various API frameworks. Ensure Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models are consistently applied across Azure Entra (Active Directory), service principals, managed identities, and data lake ACLs. Work closely with platform engineers, data governance engineers, data management engineers, and application development teams to design, review, and improve deployment patterns. Align architecture decisions with VA security and compliance requirements, including FISMA, NIST 800-53, FIPS 199/200, VA Handbook 6500, and the VA Authority to Operate (ATO) boundary constraints. Provide architectural input into platform roadmap planning, ensuring that DevOps, initiatives, and customer projects are aligned with VA’s strategic priorities and capacity planning processes. Document all solution architectures in the platform's unified architecture framework within Confluence, ensuring traceability across enterprise, platform, data, integration, and consumption layers. Mentor engineers, data scientists, and other technical staff in cloud-native architecture best practices, automation, and data product development. Research and evaluate emerging cloud technology trends and best practices to enhance company offerings. Why Join BlueFlag At BlueFlag, we're passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technology to make a real difference. You'll be at the forefront of cloud innovation, working on projects that directly impact people's lives. We offer a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment that values fresh ideas and authentic teamwork. If you're ready to take your cloud engineering career to new heights and contribute to meaningful projects that push the boundaries of technology, we want to hear from you. Join BlueFlag and be part of a team that's shaping the future of cloud solutions! Requirements Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with at least 5 years focused on Microsoft Azure. Demonstrated experience leading large-scale cloud migration projects, including VM and application migrations from on-premises environments to Azure. Proven expertise in data engineering and analytics workloads, with hands-on experience in: Azure Databricks (data processing, ML pipelines, advanced analytics) Azure Synapse Analytics (SQL Pools, big data analytics, enterprise data warehouse) Azure Data Factory and Event Hubs (batch, near real-time, and streaming ingestion) Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Neo4J, and SQL databases Technical Skills Strong background in cloud-native solution architecture within multi-cloud environments (Azure Gov, AWS). Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, GitHub Actions) for provisioning and deployment automation. Deep understanding of data governance frameworks (Collibra, Immuta for ABAC, RBAC group models in Azure Entra). Knowledge of system security and compliance requirements in a federal environment, including NIST 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP High, and VA Handbook 6500. Familiarity with disaster recovery, system integrity, and secure communications controls (e.g., Contingency Planning, System and Information Integrity, System and Communications Protection SOPs). Professional Skills Experience leading cross-functional teams (architecture, DevOps, data governance, application development) in a program environment. Strong client engagement skills, with ability to work directly with VA stakeholders, data providers, and consumers to translate business needs into technical solutions. Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and compliant data and analytics solutions that align with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements. Excellent communication skills to support stakeholder engagement, intake processes, and solution handoffs. Certifications (preferred) Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate or Azure Data Scientist Associate Experience with Azure security certifications (e.g., SC-100, SC-200) is a plus US Citizen: Must be a citizen of the United States. Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance. Must be eligible to work in the United States. Benefits Competitive salary Generous annual leave and paid holidays Comprehensive group health and dental plans 401(k) with company match Life insurance and AD&D coverage Ongoing training and professional development opportunities