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$90,000.00 - $150,000 annually

Lead Java Engineer

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The Core Online team is responsible for building and supporting global enterprise platforms that operate across multiple countries and cloud environments. The team develops highly scalable, secure, and resilient applications that support critical business operations. The team embraces innovation, experimentation, and modern engineering practices to continuously improve products and services. This role reports to Senior Manager of Application Development. This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

Responsibilities

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  • →Design, develop, and support large-scale Java-based enterprise applications and global platforms.
  • →Lead the architecture and implementation of cloud-native, microservices-based solutions using modern engineering practices.
  • →Build high-volume, low-latency applications capable of meeting stringent availability and performance objectives.
  • →Design and develop REST APIs, event-driven services, and distributed systems that support global business operations.
  • →Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the team.
  • →Implement CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, and software quality practices throughout the development lifecycle.
  • →Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
  • →Apply security best practices, secure coding standards, and data protection controls for highly regulated and sensitive data environments.
  • →Utilize AI-assisted development tools and integrate AI-powered capabilities where appropriate to improve engineering productivity and solutions.

At TransUnion, we encourage and are committed to creating a real, positive impact and shared sense of purpose within our Workforce for Good, which empowers our people to grow, innovate and contribute to a better future for our communities and customers. We strive to build an environment where our associates are in the driver’s seat of their professional development— while having access to help along the way. We recognize that success comes when our associates thrive both professionally and personally; that’s why we prioritize work/life flexibility and offer resources for our teams across the globe to collaborate and drive excellence.

 

Be a part of our Workforce for Good – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.

TransUnion's Internal Job Title:

Lead Engineer, Applications Development

Company:

TransUnion LLC
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using Java and modern software engineering practices.
  • Strong experience designing and developing distributed systems, microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven applications.
  • Experience building cloud-native applications and deploying solutions on cloud platforms, with GCP preferred.
  • Experience supporting mission-critical production systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and leading incident resolution efforts.
  • Experience working with highly regulated data and implementing security controls, including authentication, encryption, authorization, and OWASP best practices.

  • Java and Spring ecosystem expertise including Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, and Spring Data.
  • Cloud platforms and container technologies including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, and containerized deployments.
  • CI/CD and development tools including Maven, Git, SonarQube, deployment automation, and testing frameworks.
  • Automated testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, TestNG, WireMock, and TestContainers.
  • Monitoring, observability, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance tuning tools used in large-scale production environments.

Nice to Have

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  • Experience integrating AI/LLM solutions, RAG architectures, AI agents, or AI-powered automation capabilities.
  • Experience with Google Cloud Spanner or other globally distributed databases.
  • Experience designing multi-region and multi-cloud architectures.
  • Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational readiness practices.
  • Architecture, Cloud, Kubernetes, Security, or SRE certifications.

What We Offer

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At TransUnion, we design benefits to help you feel well, do well, and plan well—from day one.

Location & Eligibility

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About this job

Pay per year
$90,000–$150,000 a year
36% below the $187,000 median for Software Engineer jobs on Jobera (7,294 salaries).
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Lead Java Engineer$90,000.00 - $150,000 annually