Title: Technical Lead-App Development
Area(s) of responsibility
Senior Java / Spring Boot Architect – AWS EKS (Architecture & Solution Design)
FTE
Remote
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Java Architect 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 best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and enhance microservices using Java and Spring Boot
- Lead/participate in architecture and design discussions; produce solution approaches and design artifacts
- Deploy and operate services on AWS EKS (Kubernetes), including configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting
- Define and implement CI/CD pipelines for containerized 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
Required Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (or equivalent)
- Strong expertise 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, namespaces
- 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