6-months Contractor - Senior Integration Developer (Apache Camel / Java)

We've got around 20 Java / Spring Boot / Apache Camel services that basically connect everything at PopSockets that needs to talk to something else. NAV and Business Central on the ERP side, a 3PL that ships every B2B and B2C order, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, EDI with the big retailers (Target, Amazon, Best Buy, etc), a fulfillment partner in China, our PLM, and a data platform that wants a copy of all of it. It all runs on Azure Kubernetes.

We're looking for a senior dev who can own a chunk of that. Honestly, adding bodies doesn't add much shipping capacity unless the dev is legitimately good. Building up all the context and requirements somebody needs to do the job well takes real time, so we're being picky. The person we want is the one who can pick up "orders stopped showing up at the warehouse this morning," run it to ground across three systems, fix it properly, and write down what happened so the next person doesn't have to.

The team is split between India and Colorado and you'd be working day to day with devs and ops folks on both sides. There's real overlap required, more on that below.

• Individual contributor on the Integrations team, reporting into US engineering leadership. Works closely with the India ERP and data teams.
• Timezone. This isn't a follow-the-sun role and it isn't a US-hours role either. What we need is reliable overlap with Mountain time in the US morning, which is your evening. Practically that means being genuinely available roughly 7 to 10 pm IST most days for standups, pairing and prod issues, and the rest of your day is on your own schedule. The whole point is to avoid the 24-hour response cycle where somebody hits a wall, posts about it, and then waits a full day for an answer. When something's on fire in prod we'll need you outside those hours sometimes, and we'll be flexible back.

• Immediate joiner who can start in Oct or early Nov
• 6+ years building backend Java, at least a few of them on Apache Camel. We're on Camel 4 / Spring Boot 3 / Java 21, so recent experience matters more than ancient versions.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agent mode, or similar) as your primary way of writing and reviewing code. Not "I've tried ChatGPT." You should be able to talk about what works, what doesn't, and how you keep it honest.
• Real experience running integration services in prod: queues, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling. The stuff that separates "works on my machine" from "works at 2 am."
• Comfortable in SQL and Postgres. You'll spend a lot of time querying tables to figure out what actually happened.
• Kubernetes and a cloud provider. We're Azure but AWS or GCP translates fine. Helm, containers, reading logs and metrics.
• Someone who writes things down. Runbooks, PR descriptions, the note in the ticket explaining the fix. We're spread across two continents and the doc is how the other side finds out.
• Surfaces blockers the day you hit them, not three days later in a status update. If you're stuck, say so while somebody can still help.
• Can work independently across a time gap. Knows when a decision needs the other side of the world awake and when it doesn't.

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