Lead Java AWS Developer - 401

Provides technical leadership and delivery ownership for a team of software engineers building and operating scalable cloud-native applications on AWS.

• Drives architecture decisions, engineering best practices, and solution design across Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch platforms, CI/CD, observability and AWS infrastructure.

• Collaborates with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing solutions while mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and ensuring successful execution of business objectives.

Typical task breakdown:

• Leads software engineers in delivering business-critical applications.

• Establishes technical direction and architectural standards.

• Drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.

• Ensures solution scalability, performance, security, and reliability.

• Promotes DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted development practices.

• Supports incident resolution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Interaction with team:

• Mentors’ engineers and develop technical talent.

• Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals.

Work environment:

Chicago office but the role can be 100% remote but there will be travel involved when needed so we want local candidates.

Bachelor’s degree is a must

• 10+ years’ experience in this capacity with 5+ years in a lead role.

Required Technical Skills

• Java (latest would be ideal) , Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, AWS (ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager), OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub, Distributed Systems, Cloud Architecture, Observability, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, SQL/NoSQL databases, Event-Driven Architecture, API Integration, Performance Optimization, and AI-assisted Development Tools.

Soft Skills

• Strong technical leadership, communication, stakeholder management, mentoring and coaching, collaboration, problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, ownership, conflict resolution, adaptability, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams while driving successful delivery of complex cloud-native solutions.