PDF Solutions, Inc.

Full Stack Development Engineer

PDF Solutions, Inc.$115K — $125K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience.
  • Proficient in Java 17+ and Spring Boot for production microservices and REST APIs.
  • Deep knowledge of the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Data/JPA and Spring Security.
  • Skilled in relational (Oracle) and NoSQL (Cassandra) database management.
  • Experienced in event-driven development using Apache Kafka.
  • Front-end/full-stack UI development expertise for JavaScript/TypeScript SPAs.
  • Familiar with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Security engineering expertise in OAuth2/OIDC/JWT and TLS/PKI.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain back-end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Build full-stack product features, including customer-facing dashboards and alerts.
  • Manage logging and auditing within the product integration.
  • Implement data access against Oracle and Cassandra, ensuring data integrity.
  • Integrate Kafka messaging for event-driven capabilities in the product.
  • Maintain product quality by fixing defects and enhancing test coverage.
  • Embed security best practices into product code and architecture.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in the manufacturing sector.
  • Exposure to AI-driven development tools.
  • Flexible work arrangements for a balanced life.
  • Professional growth through continuous learning and development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Role Summary

This Full Stack Developer owns the ongoing development and maintenance of the Sapience4 Manufacturing Hub enterprise (SMHe) product 1 a cloud-native platform that unifies manufacturing, shop-floor, and process data into enterprise business systems. They will be responsible for building and maintaining SMHe's own back-end services in Java and Spring Boot (microservices, REST APIs, data access against Oracle and Cassandra, Kafka-based messaging), the customer-facing SMHe web UI, the security and IAM layer, and observability 1 then shipping it all on Kubernetes via Helm across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. The developer delivers the platform features customers depend on, such as custom monitoring dashboards and end-to-end certificate management.

Equally important is keeping the product healthy over its lifecycle: fixing defects, refactoring, raising test coverage, hardening security, and guaranteeing upgrade safety and backup/restore across releases. The role calls for solid grasp of the platform's architecture 1 high-availability and disaster-recovery topologies, RBAC, and PKI/TLS 1 and proven agentic development skills, meaning fluency with AI coding agents to accelerate and improve delivery, backed by concrete evidence (repos, PRs, before/after metrics). Familiarity with Apache Camel and the Karavan visual designer is a plus, but it is supporting context rather than the core of the role.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain SMHe's back-end services and microservices in Java and Spring Boot 1 REST APIs, business logic, scheduled jobs, and service-to-service integration.
  • Build full-stack product features end to end, spanning back-end services and the SMHe web UI, including customer-facing monitoring dashboards (Grafana), panel thresholds, and alerting.
  • Enable logging and auditing within the product, internally and through integration with entrerprise solutions such as splunk or Dynatrace. Use and management of Elastic/Opensearch to gather and analyze data.
  • Implement persistence and data access against Oracle (RAC) and Cassandra using Spring Data / JPA and appropriate drivers, ensuring data integrity, migrations, and upgrade-safe schemas.
  • Integrate Kafka-based messaging through Spring (producers, consumers, serialization, and error handling) for event-driven product capabilities.
  • Maintain product quality across releases: triage and fix defects, refactor, raise unit and integration test coverage, perform code reviews, and manage technical debt.
  • Build security into the the product: Spring Security / OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT integration with SMHe IAM (Keycloak), fine-grained RBAC, and end-to-end TLS/PKI 1 corporate-CA certificates, Java trust stores, Kubernetes TLS secrets, NGINX ingress, mutual TLS, and certificate rotation/revocation (CRL/OCSP).
  • Code with security in mind: develop and review code for best practices, respond swiftly to change or update code, libraries and dependencies to address CVEs.
  • Guarantee persistence, upgrade safety, and backup/restore for customer-managed artifacts (dashboards, thresholds, alerts, certificates) across pod restarts and version upgrades.
  • Containerize and ship services with Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes; instrument with Micrometer / Spring Boot Actuator to expose Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards; support cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped builds.
  • Manage source control in Git and contribute to CI/CD pipelines: branch, build, deploy, roll back, and version product releases.
  • Demonstrate agentic development skills by using AI coding agents to implement, refactor, test, and document features, with evidence of measurable productivity and quality gains.
  • Build agentic and automated capabilities into the product where they add value 1 self-service workflows and automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation.
  • Author developer and operator documentation, and collaborate with support teams and customer admins to reproduce and resolve product- and platform-level issues.
Qualifications

Must-Have Skills & Experience

  • Minimum of 8 years of experience
  • Strong Java (17+) and Spring Boot 1 building and maintaining production microservices and REST APIs.
  • Spring ecosystem depth: Spring Data / JPA, Spring Security, and Spring for Kafka.
  • Relational and NoSQL persistence 1 Oracle (SQL, schema/migration design) and Cassandra (data modeling, drivers).
  • Event-driven development with Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, serialization, error handling).
  • Front-end / full-stack web development for the SMHe UI (modern JavaScript/TypeScript SPA; specific framework per the codebase).
  • Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Security engineering: OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT, RBAC, and identity integration with Keycloak (SMHe IAM); TLS/PKI fundamentals including corporate-CA certificates, Java truststores, and certificate lifecycle.
  • Observability instrumentation with Micrometer / Spring Boot Actuator, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Git-based source control and CI/CD pipeline contribution.
  • Proven agentic development skills with Claude Code or Cursor 1 demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding agents to implement, refactor, test, and document software, with concrete evidence (repositories, pull requests, or before/after productivity metrics).
  • Solid grasp of distributed-systems architecture: high availability, replication, and upgrade-safe, backup/restore-friendly design.

Nice to Have

  • Semiconductor or Manufacturing industry experience preferred
  • Apache Camel and the Karavan low-code visual designer.
  • Infrastructure automation with Ansible.
  • Experience with air-gapped or regulated/enterprise PKI deployments.
Pay RangeCAD $115,000.00 - CAD $125,000.00 /Yr.

About PDF Solutions, Inc.

PDF Solutions, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure technologies and services for integrated circuits (IC). The Company's technologies and services focus on the IC manufacturing process life cycle. It operates in the segment of licensing and implementation of yield improvement solutions for integrated circuit manufacturers. Its solutions combine software, test chips, an electrical wafer test system, methodologies and professional services. The Company's characterization vehicle infrastructure (CVi) enables customers to electrically characterize the manufacturing process, and establish fail-rate information needed to calibrate manufacturing yield models and prioritize yield improvement activities. Its Exensio YieldAware solution incorporates all of the components of solutions, such as CVi, yield management software systems, and business intelligence dashboards. The Company's Exensio product family includes Exensio-Yield, Exensio-Control, Exensio-Test and Exensio-Char.
Learn more about PDF Solutions, Inc.
Size
407 employees
Market Cap
$1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$40.3 million
5 Year Trend
+0.7%
Revenue
$88 million
NASDAQ

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