Technical Lead-App Development

Area(s) of responsibility Java/ Spring Boot Lead with AWS EKS

REMOTE FTE

Looking for an experienced Java engineer with strong Spring Boot and AWS EKS expertise, who can also contribute at the architecture level. The resource should be able to proactively propose designs, drive solutioning discussions, and guide the team through implementation of best practices

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance microservices using Java and Spring Boot.

• Lead/ participate in architecture and design discussions; produce solution approach and design artifacts.

• Develop and operate services on AWS EKS (Kubernetes), including configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.

• Define and implement CI/CD pipelines for containerization workloads.

• Drive non-functional requirements, performance, resiliency, scalability, observability, and security.

• Collaborate with Product, engineering, SRE/DevOps, and security teams to deliver end-to-end solutions

• Mentor team members; set coding standards and review designs/code.

• Key Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (or equivalent)

• Strong experience in Java (8/11/17+) and Spring Boot.

• Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices (clean architecture, SOLID principles).

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS/ Kubernetes.

• Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps/ Secrets, HPA, namespace.

• Troubleshooting PODs, networking, and cluster issues.

• Docker/ Containerization experience.

• Working knowledge of AWS services commonly used with EKS (as applicable): IAM, VPC, ALB/ NLB, CloudWatch, ECR, S3, RDS/ DynamoDB, etc.

• Experience with architecture/ design; defining target state, Integration patterns, tradeoffs, and documenting decisions.

• Strong communication skills; ability to propose designs and solutions independently.

• Deliverables/ Expectations

• Provide solution designs (HLD/ LLD), sequence diagrams, deployment topology, and runbooks.

• Establish best practices for microservices on EKS (deployment patterns, resiliency, monitoring).

• Drive implementation from design to production readiness.