AWS Technical Lead – Senior Java/Angular Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Guide and mentor a small, geographically dispersed Agile development team while actively engaging in architecture, design, development, code reviews, and troubleshooting.

• Act as the technical liaison between the development team, program leadership, and the customer.

• Convert customer and user requirements into technical specifications, architectural strategies, and implementation plans.

• Create, develop, and sustain enterprise applications utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and relational databases.

• Provide technical guidance for applications deployed on AWS, focusing on architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resilience.

• Construct, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Amazon ECS.

• Develop and manage cloud infrastructure through Terraform/OpenTofu and automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Design and oversee relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and/or Oracle with Hibernate/JPA and MyBatis.

• Implement microservices, asynchronous processing, caching, automated testing, and secure software development practices.

• Facilitate observability and production troubleshooting using OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.

• Enhance application performance, security, maintainability, and architecture.

• Assist with workload and capacity planning, technical mentoring, performance feedback, and professional growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Current AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or a higher-level AWS certification.

• Over 8 years of professional software development experience.

• More than 2 years of experience in technical leadership.

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring/Spring Boot development.

• Familiarity with Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ is preferred.

• Proficient in designing REST APIs and microservice-based applications.

• At least 4 years of hands-on AWS experience with production workloads.

• In-depth understanding of AWS architecture and core services, including ECS/ECR, VPC/networking, IAM, load balancing, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Secrets Management.

• Strong grasp of cloud security, scalability, resilience, high availability, and observability.

• Experience with Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, SQL, Hibernate/JPA, or MyBatis.

• Experience with automated testing, code quality, security scanning, and DevSecOps practices.

• Familiarity with application monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

• Ability to lead and mentor a fully remote, geographically distributed development team.

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.

• Capability to translate business and user requirements into technical solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with people management or team leadership responsibilities.

• Ability to prioritize tasks, identify technical risks, and promote engineering best practices.

• US Citizenship or Green Card is required with 2 years of continuous residency in the US; sponsorship is not available.

• Availability to work East Coast hours.

• Public Trust clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for medical plans, some including Health Savings Accounts.

• Choices for dental plans.

• Vision plan availability.

• 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions along with company matching.

• Flexibility in work weeks wherever possible.

• Paid time off for vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty.

• Typically, new employees receive 15 days of paid leave per calendar year.

• 10 paid holidays each year.

• Eligible employees can receive up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance.

• Critical illness insurance.

• Business travel and accident insurance.