Provides technical leadership for engineers building scalable cloud-native applications on AWS. Leads architecture, modernization, Spring Boot microservices, OpenSearch, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure initiatives. Ensures security, scalability, performance, and reliability while mentoring engineers and improving development practices. Collaborates with product, architecture, platform, and business stakeholders, supports incident resolution, and drives DevOps, automation, and AI-assisted development.
This is a remote position.
Role: IT Software Engineer 5 / Java Backend Developer
Location: Chicago, IL / 100% remote, but travel will be required as needed.
Duration: 12-month contract /full-time
90-100% backend development, and drives AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
Automotive background, Java background, Lucid background, or OpenSearch.
NOTE: No full-stack roles with heavy front-end; Angular/React/TypeScript;
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- 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 develops technical talent.
- Partners with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to align technology investments with business goals.
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.
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