Lead Java Software Engineer

Position Title : Lead Java Software Engineer

Job Location: Remote

Estimated Duration (In Months): 12 Months

Remote job

Required Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of Java backend development
• 5+ years in Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer roles
• Spring Boot and Microservices expertise
• Strong AWS experience (especially ECS/Fargate, IAM, RDS, ALB, CloudWatch)
• REST API architecture
• Docker & Kubernetes (bonus)
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, etc.
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
• Event-driven architecture (Kafka, SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed systems
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
• Mentoring engineers
• Architecture ownership
• Performance optimization
• Enterprise application modernization

Required Technical Skills

• Spring Boot
• Java (21 latest versions )
• Microservices Architecture
• REST API Development
• AWS Cloud Services (ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager)
• OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
• Docker
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitHub
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Architecture
• Observability & Monitoring
• DevOps Practices
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• SQL & NoSQL Databases
• Event-Driven Architecture
• API Integration
• Performance Optimization

Responsibilities

• Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications.
• Establishes technical direction and architectural standards.
• Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices.
• Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.