Micreservices Lead

We are looking for a Microservices Lead to lead the design development and delivery of microservices for a new MSP solution.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building scalable secure resilient and observable distributed systems using Spring Boot and AWS. The role will provide technical direction across architecture APIs integrations data security testing and deployment.

• Lead the design and development of microservices using Spring Boot and AWS.
  
• Define service boundaries APIs contracts and integration patterns.
  
• Design secure authentication and authorization workflows.
  
• Build data persistence solutions using SQL and NoSQL databases.
  
• Implement asynchronous and event-driven communication.
  
• Establish observability through centralized logging monitoring and distributed tracing.
  
• Ensure scalability resiliency fault tolerance and performance.
  
• Oversee CI/CD deployment and environment configuration practices.
  
• Promote secure coding secrets management and cloud-native best practices.
  
• Troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues across services and environments.
  
• Provide technical guidance and establish engineering standards and best practices.
  

Functional Skills

• Distributed Systems Architecture: Ability to design scalable and maintainable microservices architectures.
  
• Technical Leadership: Ability to define technical direction and guide engineering teams.
  
• API & Integration Design: Strong understanding of APIs service contracts and integration patterns.
  
• Cloud-Native Thinking: Ability to design solutions leveraging cloud services effectively.
  
• Resilience & Reliability: Strong understanding of fault tolerance recovery and distributed system reliability.
  
• Security Mindset: Ability to incorporate security into architecture and development practices.
  
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
  

Technical Skills

• Backend: Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring Security REST APIs OpenAPI/Swagger.
  
• Architecture: Microservices CQRS Saga Event Sourcing Eventual Consistency Circuit Breaker Strangler Fig and Database-per-Service.
  
• AWS: Lambda ECS/EKS RDS/Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache S3 SQS SNS EventBridge and MSK/Kafka.
  
• Security: OAuth 2.0/OIDC JWT OWASP API Security secure coding and secrets management.
  
• Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL NoSQL Redis Kafka schema migrations Outbox Pattern and idempotent consumers.
  
• Observability: CloudWatch X-Ray OpenTelemetry structured logging correlation IDs dashboards and alerting.
  
• Testing: Unit/integration testing Pact Testcontainers contract testing load testing and chaos testing.
  
• DevOps: CI/CD deployment automation environment configuration and cloud-native development practices.