Lead Java Full Stack & AWS Solution Architect

United Software Group, Inc.
New York, NY, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JavaScript (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Applications Architecture HTML5 Automation of Tests Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering
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Code Review Databases Continuous Integration DevOps Distributed Systems Amazon DynamoDB Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Fault Tolerance Github Hibernate (Java) Identity and Access Management Java Persistence API Spring Framework Key Management PostgreSQL Enterprise Messaging Systems MySQL OAuth OpenID Oracle Databases Reliability Engineering Prometheus Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) TypeScript Datadog Enterprise Application Integration Data Logging Enterprise Software Applications ReactJS Grafana Spring-boot Software Security Backend Git Cloudformation Event Driven Architecture Build Management Amazon Relational Database Service Containerization AngularJS Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Apache Kafka Front End Software Development Functional Programming Cloudwatch Api Gateway Software Coding Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Terraform Splunk Dynatrace Devsecops Serverless Computing Docker Jenkins Microservices

Job description

  • Define end-to-end architecture for enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, modern UI frameworks, and AWS
  • Design scalable, secure, highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native solutions
  • Stay hands-on with development, prototyping, and implementation of critical components
  • Design and build Microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven applications
  • Define frontend architecture using React or Angular; establish reusable UI patterns and standards
  • Design AWS architectures spanning compute, container, serverless, storage, database, networking, and security services
  • Develop architecture diagrams, solution designs, API specs, integration patterns, and technical standards
  • Lead application modernization and migration of enterprise workloads to AWS
  • Design integrations across APIs, databases, messaging platforms, third-party systems, and enterprise applications
  • Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews; enforce engineering standards
  • Develop PoCs to validate architectural approaches and emerging technologies
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor Full Stack engineering teams
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders, Security, DevOps, QA, and infrastructure teams
  • Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, security, observability, resilience, and maintainability requirements
  • Troubleshoot complex application and production issues at both architecture and code level
  • Drive CI/CD, automated testing, containerization, and DevSecOps best practices

Requirements

We’re seeking an experienced Java Full Stack & AWS Solution Architect with strong hands-on engineering capabilities to design and deliver scalable, secure, resilient, high-performing cloud-native enterprise applications. The ideal candidate has deep expertise across Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, React/Angular, REST APIs, and AWS architecture, with the ability to translate business requirements into end-to-end technical solutions. This role blends solution architecture, hands-on development, technical leadership, and cloud engineering., * 10+ years in Java/J2EE, Full Stack development, and enterprise software engineering

  • 7+ years with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, and distributed application architecture
  • 5+ years designing and implementing solutions using AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture
  • 4+ years with React/Angular, containerization, CI/CD, and enterprise application architecture/design

Technical Skills

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, JPA/Hibernate
  • Frontend: React/Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
  • Architecture: Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Systems
  • AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS/ECS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch
  • Security: AWS IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, OAuth/OIDC, API Security
  • Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB
  • Messaging: Kafka, SQS, SNS
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS
  • DevOps: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Observability: CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana

Nice to Have

  • Strong hands-on coding ability, including developing reference implementations
  • Experience architecting high-volume, highly available enterprise applications
  • AWS serverless and event-driven architecture experience
  • Application modernization/migration from legacy or on-prem platforms to AWS
  • Knowledge of API Gateway, API security, and enterprise integration patterns
  • Kafka and asynchronous/event-driven processing experience
  • Strong Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration knowledge
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • Application security, IAM, encryption, and secrets management knowledge
  • Experience defining observability, logging, tracing, and SRE requirements
  • Experience leading technical teams and mentoring senior engineers
  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification (or equivalent) preferred
  • Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance domain experience

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