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Responsibilities: Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Java & AWS (Java Primary, AWS Secondary) Experience: 8+ years Role Overview Seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java & AWS) to design and deliver cloud-native platforms with Java as the primary stack and AWS as secondary. Emphasis on technical depth, mentorship, driving projects, and crisp stakeholder communication. --- Key Responsibilities · Architecture & Cloud Design: Define service/data architectures, select AWS services/patterns (serverless vs. containers) for scale, resilience, security, and cost. · Build & Delivery: Implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, manage API lifecycle (versioning/deprecation), ensure operational readiness. · Quality & Reliability: Establish test strategy (unit/integration/contract/performance), implement resilience patterns and caching, enforce CI quality gates. · Security & Compliance: Implement OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, encryption, align to org policy and regulatory standards. · Observability & Cost: Implement logs/metrics/traces, define SLIs/SLOs, alerts, dashboards, design for right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost efficiency. · Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers, communicate options/trade-offs/risks clearly with Product/Architecture/SRE/Security. · Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity. · Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensure Definition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accurate story point estimation. Qualifications: Must-Have Skills Java (Primary) · Java / Java 8+: OOP & SOLID, Streams, Optional, functional interfaces, lambda expressions. · Concurrency: Thread pools, Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks, concurrent collections, Java Memory Model, heap/stack, GC insights. · Web & API: RESTful design (idempotency, pagination, error models), rate limiting, API gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI. · Spring: Spring Core (IoC/DI), Spring MVC, Spring Boot (auto-config/starter deps), Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Batch, Spring AOP. · Architecture & Patterns: Event-driven design (MQ/queueing), patterns—Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template. · Data & Testing: Strong SQL, , JUnit 5/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract & performance testing. · Tooling & Observability: Maven/Gradle, Git, CI/CD, logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry). AWS (Secondary) · Core: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS/Fargate, monitoring with CloudWatch/X-Ray, auditing with CloudTrail. · Security & Networking: IAM (least privilege), KMS, VPC (subnets, SGs/NACLs), Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, basic WAF. · IaC & Deployments: AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred) or Terraform/CloudFormation, blue/green, canary, feature flags, zero-downtime deployments. · Reliability & Cost: Autoscaling, throttling, DLQs, retries/backoff, cost-aware designs (right-sizing, storage tiers, DynamoDB capacity models). --- Good to Have · Step Functions, Kinesis/MSK, ElastiCache, OpenSearch. · Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps-friendly workflows. · Chaos testing and DR strategies, multi-account landing zone familiarity. --- Soft Skills · Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and bias for action. · Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones. · Mentors teammates, provides clear, constructive feedback. · Demonstrates ownership, raises the bar, and consistently exceeds day-to-day expectations. · Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drives clarity and resolution with stakeholders.