AWS Technical Lead/Sr. Java/Angular Developer

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SR PRINCIPAL

*EAST COAST HOURS*
**MUST HAVE CURRENT AWS CERTIFICATION**

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring a strong software engineering background, broad AWS cloud expertise, and the ability to lead and mentor developers.

Duties:

·   Lead and mentor a small, distributed Agile development team while remaining hands-on with architecture, design, development, code reviews, and troubleshooting.

·   Serve as a key technical point of contact between the development team, program leadership, and customer.

·   Translate customer and user requirements into technical specifications, architectural approaches, and implementation plans.

·   Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and relational databases.

·   Provide technical leadership for applications deployed in AWS, including architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resiliency.

·   Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Amazon ECS.

·   Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and automated CI/CD pipelines.

·   Design and maintain relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and/or Oracle and persistence frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA and MyBatis.

·   Apply modern application patterns including micro-services, asynchronous processing, caching, automated testing, and secure software development.

·   Support application observability and production troubleshooting using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.

·   Promote software engineering best practices and identify opportunities to improve application performance, security, maintainability, and architecture.

·   Support team workload/capacity planning, technical mentoring, performance feedback, and professional development.

Required Experience and Technical Skills:

·   MUST HAVE AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.

·   8+ years of professional software development experience, including experience developing enterprise applications in Agile environments.

·   2+ years of technical leadership experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Software Architect, or equivalent.

·   Strong hands-on Java and Spring/Spring Boot development experience; Java 21 or recent Java LTS versions preferred.

·   Experience developing modern web applications using Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ preferred.

·   Experience designing and developing REST APIs and micro-service-based applications.

·   4+ years of hands-on AWS experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production workloads.

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

·   Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, resiliency, high availability, and observability.

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

·   Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, SQL, and Java persistence technologies such as Hibernate/JPA or MyBatis.

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

·   Experience with application monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

Leadership Skills and Abilities

·   Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a geographically distributed, 100% remote development team.

·   Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical and people leadership.

·   Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills across application, container, database, networking, and AWS infrastructure layers.

·   Ability to translate business and user requirements into effective technical solutions.

·   Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with customers and technical/non-technical stakeholders.

·   Experience with people-management or team-lead responsibilities including mentoring, performance feedback, workload/capacity management, and professional development.

·   Ability to prioritize work, identify technical risks, and drive engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills

·   GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runner experience.

·   Linux and shell scripting.

·   JUnit, SonarQube, Playwright, Karma, or comparable testing/code-quality tools.

·   Experience with enterprise authentication/SSO or DSSO.

·   Section 508 accessibility experience.

·   Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.

·   Familiarity with additional AWS services and event-driven/server-less architectures.

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL

Public Trust

LOCATION

100% remote - East Coast Hours

US Citizenship or Green Card Required with 2 years of continuous residency in the US (no sponsorship available)