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# Software Engineering Lead - APIs

- **Company:** Safe-Guard Products International, LLC
- **Location:** Sandy Springs, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Pair Programming, Performance Tuning, Scrum Methodology, Swagger, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Openapi, Datadog, Data Logging, Test-Driven Development (TDD), ReactJS, Large Language Models, Grafana, Spring-boot, Generative AI, Event Driven Architecture, AngularJS, AWS Fargate, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Api Design, Api Gateway, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Splunk, Grpc, Dynatrace, Microservices
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_ea449be48

## About the Role

* 6+ years of professional software development experience
 * 1-2 years in a technical leadership or senior engineering role
 * Java and Spring Boot framework
 * RESTful API design and microservices architecture
 * API design patterns (GraphQL, gRPC, or OpenAPI/Swagger)
 * AWS cloud services and cloud-native development
 * Relational and NoSQL databases
 * Distributed systems concepts (resilience, fault tolerance, eventual consistency)
 * Integration with generative AI and LLM technologies (OpenAI, Bedrock, LangChain, SageMaker)
 * Performance optimization and scalability patterns
 * Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
 * Proven mentoring and team collaboration abilities
 * Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
 * Quarkus framework experience
 * Frontend development skills (Angular or React)
 * Python for scripting or services development
 * Event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge)
 * Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Splunk)

## Description

* Collaborate with product managers and solution architects to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs
 * Guide architectural decisions, establish coding standards, and champion software engineering best practices
 * Design, develop, and maintain microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and modern cloud-native patterns on AWS
 * Build solutions leveraging AWS services (ECS Fargate, S3, SQS, API Gateway, Lambda) with SQL and NoSQL databases
 * Implement CI/CD pipelines, API governance strategies, and observability practices (distributed tracing, structured logging, SLO/SLA monitoring)
 * Mentor team members through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing
 * Foster a culture of test-driven development, observability, and operational excellence
 * Remain agile and adaptable, capable of context-switching between projects as business needs evolve

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities.


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