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# Lead Full Stack Engineer

- **Company:** Selby Jennings
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Dependency Injection, Distributed Systems, Java Database Connectivity, Java Persistence API, Spring-mvc, ReactJS, Spring-boot, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9e57976ebc5e8960

## About the Role

* BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent experience (8+ years of experience)
 * 2+ years as a tech lead, team lead, or senior engineer with de facto ownership of a domain and its delivery.
 * Deep hands-on Java (17/21) and Spring Boot: Spring Data JPA and/or JDBC, transaction management, Spring MVC REST APIs, dependency injection, and testing at every layer.
 * Solid distributed systems practice: asynchronous message-driven processing (SQS/SNS, Kafka, or equivalent), idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, and compensating actions.
 * Working proficiency in TypeScript and React - hooks, component composition, forms, async data fetching - sufficient to build and review real product screens.



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