Lead Java Full Stack Developer with AWS (14+ yrs)

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Java 11

Top Skills Required For This Role

• API Design, Architecture, & Integration
• AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront), Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Grafana/Prometheus
• Commercial Banking knowledge

• We’re seeking a hands-on Senior/Lead Java FSD who can architect, build, and scale API-first platforms and integrations.
• You’ll lead design and delivery of high-volume APIs, craft cloud-native microservices on AWS, and guide teams on best practices for reliability, security, and observability.
• This role blends deep back-end expertise (Java, Spring) with front-end fundamentals (React/TypeScript) to deliver end-to-end features and integration experiences.

Architecture & API Design

• Own end-to-end API architecture (REST/GraphQL), including resource modeling, error schemas, versioning strategy and contract testing.
• Design domain-aligned microservices (DDD), event-driven patterns (Kafka/SNS/SQS) and distributed workflows.
• Define integration patterns (webhooks, event streaming, async queues, batch, CDC) and BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) layers for client needs.

• Build Java 17+ / Spring Boot services; implement JPA/Hibernate, Spring Security, WebFlux, and Resilience4j for reliability.
• Develop front-end features using React + TypeScript, focusing on performance, accessibility, and maintainable components.
• Establish and enforce API standards (OpenAPI/Swagger), linting, and SDK generation where appropriate.

• Architect, implement, and operate workloads on AWS:
• Compute: ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda
• Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink, API Gateway, Route 53
• Data: RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache/Redis, S3, OpenSearch
• Integration: SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Step Functions, Kinesis
• Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, Shield, Cognito/OIDC
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation, and implement blue/green or canary deployments with automated rollbacks.
• Implement observability: distributed tracing, structured logging, metrics and SLOs via CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana.

• Mentor engineers, lead code/design reviews, and foster engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Security on roadmaps, discovery, and prioritization.
• Champion documentation: API specs, runbooks, postmortems, and playbooks.

• 14+ years professional software engineering experience; 3+ years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.
• Expert in Java 11+/17, Spring Boot, REST, JSON, OpenAPI, and asynchronous messaging (SNS/SQS/Kafka).
• Strong with integration patterns (sync/async), API versioning, backwards compatibility, schema evolution, and contract testing (Pact/WireMock).
• Proficient with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Aurora) and at least one NoSQL (DynamoDB/DocumentDB); caching with Redis.
• Proficient in CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, and container orchestration (ECS/EKS).
• Solid observability (logs, metrics, traces) and performance tuning (JVM, DB, API latency, throughput).
• Security-first mindset: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, CORS, CSP, input validation.
• Front-end capability with React + TypeScript (or Angular), including state mgmt (Redux/RTK/React Query), routing, and component design.

• Back End: Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, WebFlux, JPA/Hibernate, Resilience4j
• APIs: REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI/Swagger, Pact
• Messaging & Events: Kafka/SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis
• Data: PostgreSQL/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, S3, OpenSearch
• Front End: React 18, TypeScript, Vite/Webpack, Jest, Cypress/Playwright
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront), Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Jenkins, CloudWatch, Grafana/Prometheus

• Event-driven architectures with EventBridge/Kinesis, CDC (Debezium), and saga patterns (Step Functions/temporal-like orchestration).
• GraphQL (Apollo/Federation) and BFF patterns; API monetization and developer portal experience.
• Multi-account AWS strategy, landing zones, network segmentation, and service mesh (App Mesh/Istio).
• Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, service autoscaling, pod disruption budgets, and cost optimization (Graviton/Spot).
• Experience in regulated environments (PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA) and data privacy (PII, GDPR).