AWS Technical Lead / Senior AWS Lead Developer

Actual Job title: AWS Technical Lead / Senior AWS Lead Developer
Work Location including Zip code: Dallas, TX

Must have skills:
AWS core services (Amazon API Gateway,AWS Step Functions,Amazon EventBridge,Amazon SQS / SNS,Amazon AppFlow,AWS Lambda,ECS/Fargate,DynamoDB,Amazon S3,AWS Secrets Manager,CloudWatch), Micro services, Java

Nice to have skills:
NodeJS, Social commerce integration

Detailed Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced AWS Lead to lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native solutions on AWS.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in AWS serverless technologies, API development, event-driven architectures, messaging services, containerized workloads, and AWS monitoring and security services and also have experience in TikTok Shop & Social Commerce Integration (Develop and support integrations with TikTok Shop and other social commerce platforms). The candidate should be comfortable providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on with solution design, development, troubleshooting, and code reviews.
Responsibilities
• Leads the design and implementation of cloud-native and event-driven solutions on AWS, leveraging Python and services including Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, AppFlow, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, observable, and aligned with established architecture standards.
• Develop robust backend services and integrations using Java.
• Provide technical guidance to developers, conduct code/design reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, and AWS infrastructure issues.
• Establishes, governs, and drives adoption of coding standards, architectural patterns, engineering best practices, and development processes to deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.
• Provides technical leadership across the application stack, with a strong understanding of underlying applications, APIs, cloud services, integrations, and databases to guide design decisions and ensure reliability, scalability, and optimal performance.
• Leads technical design and solutioning discussions, evaluating appropriate technologies and architectural approaches to address business requirements, improving customer/member experience, and drive operational efficiencies.
• Remains hands-on in development, leading complex implementation, debugging, performance optimization, automation, and production issue resolution while providing technical guidance to the engineering team.
• Leads peer code and design reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, security practices, architectural principles, performance requirements, and maintainability expectations.
• Collaborates closely with architects, engineering teams, product stakeholders, and dependent application teams to define technical solutions, manage dependencies, resolve technical challenges, and drive end-to-end delivery.
• Mentors and provides technical direction to engineers, enabling effective problem solving, knowledge sharing, and consistent adoption of engineering best practices across the team.
Owns technical decision-making and proactively identifies technical risks, dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities, driving them through to resolution

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Experience:
7+ years of software development experience, preferably involving digital or commerce solutions.
5+ years of hands-on experience developing and implementing solutions on AWS.
Strong hands-on development experience with Java and Spring Boot.
Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, microservices, and third-party integrations.
Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
Experience with serverless and cloud-native application architectures.
Experience working with digital commerce, e-commerce, customer experience, or omnichannel solutions.
Prior experience or exposure to TikTok Shop or comparable social commerce integrations is strongly preferred.
Good understanding of AWS security, IAM, networking, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and cost-optimization principles.