Technical Lead – Java / AWS

• The Lead Software Engineer will provide deep technical leadership for the design and implementation of Java‐based, cloud‐native systems on AWS, defining service architecture, data flows, and integration patterns to meet strict scalability, availability, and security requirements. This role will drive architectural decisions across microservices, event‐driven, and asynchronous processing patterns, ensuring clear service ownership and well‐defined contracts.
• The position will lead development of core backend services using modern Java frameworks and AWS‐native patterns, including RESTful and event‐based APIs, message‐driven processing, and distributed data management. The Lead Engineer will guide adoption of AWS services such as managed compute, messaging, storage, and databases, and will define standards for infrastructure‐as‐code, resiliency, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation.
• In addition, this role will establish technical best practices for CI/CD automation, observability, logging, metrics, and tracing to support reliable operation of distributed systems in production. By proactively identifying architectural bottlenecks, scalability constraints, and technical debt, the Lead Software Engineer will directly improve system performance, reliability, and long‐term maintainability while enabling the work group to scale features and throughput efficiently.

Education & Experience Required:

• NO Degree required
• Must have 10+ years'' experience as a PM
• At least 3+ years'' experience in leading a team is preferred.

Required Technical Skills

(Required)

• Strong AWS expertise, including designing and operating cloud‐native, highly available distributed systems
• Advanced Java and/or Kotlin in production environments
• Spring Boot for building microservices and REST APIs (e.g., Spring Web/MVC, dependency injection, configuration, actuator/health checks)
• Microservices architecture and distributed systems patterns (service boundaries, resiliency, fault tolerance)
• RESTful API design & implementation, including documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
• SQL + relational databases (data modeling, query tuning, performance)
• NoSQL / non‐relational data stores (e.g., DynamoDB/MongoDB/Cassandra)
• CI/CD and build/deploy automation (pipelines, quality gates, repeatable releases)
• Data streaming / asynchronous messaging (event‐driven patterns; e.g., Kafka)
• Observability & production troubleshooting (logging/metrics/tracing, incident investigation)

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Strong technical communication skills, able to clearly explain complex designs and trade‐offs to engineers, product owners, and managers
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams on shared architectures and dependencies
• Technical leadership and ownership, driving decisions and follow‐through on complex engineering problems
• Problem‐solving and analytical thinking, especially in debugging, production support, and performance issues
• Ability to balance technical depth with delivery, making pragmatic decisions aligned with business priorities
• Comfortable participating in Agile ceremonies and technical discussions while remaining primarily hands‐on