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Backend Java or Python Developer

Date Posted: Oct 6, 2025

Job #1683782
Contract
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Software Engineer II - Java Backend

Description
Korn Ferry has partnered with our Columbus, OH client to hire multiple Java or Python developers for contract to hire positions.

As an Experienced Software Engineer, you will serve as member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Depending on the team that you join, you could be developing mobile features that give our customers and clients more control over how they bank with us, strategizing on how big data can make our trading systems quicker, creating the next innovation in payments for merchants, or supporting the integration of our private and public cloud platforms.

Job Responsibilities 

  • Participates in, design and develop scalable and resilient systems using Java or Python to contribute to continual, iterative improvements for product teams
  • Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
  • Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
  • Produces or contributes to architecture and design artifacts for applications while ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
  • Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
  • Identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
  • Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability
  • Proficient in coding in Java or Python languages
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
  • Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
  • Knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
  • Exposure to cloud technologies

Education & Work Experience

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of work experience in an enterprise environment

Title Java or Python Backend Developer

Location Columbus, OH

Client Industry FinTech

Compensation $55-75/hr

 

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