Lead Java Full Stack Developer with AWS (14+ yrs)

Jersey, NJ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Lead Java Full Stack Developer with AWS
Location: Plano TX / Jersey City NJ (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract

Skill Metrics:

AWS CloudWatch

AWS Cloud

AWS

Java 11

Top skills required for this role:

API Design Architecture & Integration
AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda API Gateway ALB Route 53 CloudFront) Docker Terraform/CloudFormation Jenkins CloudWatch Grafana/Prometheus
Commercial Banking knowledge

About the Role:

Were seeking a hands-on Senior/Lead Java FSD who can architect build and scale API-first platforms and integrations.
Youll lead design and delivery of high-volume APIs craft cloud-native microservices on AWS and guide teams on best practices for reliability security and observability.
This role blends deep back-end expertise (Java Spring) with front-end fundamentals (React/TypeScript) to deliver end-to-end features and integration experiences.

Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & API Design
Own end-to-end API architecture (REST/GraphQL) including resource modeling error schemas versioning strategy and contract testing.
Design domain-aligned microservices (DDD) event-driven patterns (Kafka/SNS/SQS) and distributed workflows.
Define integration patterns (webhooks event streaming async queues batch CDC) and BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) layers for client needs.
Delivery & Engineering
Build Java 17 / Spring Boot services; implement JPA/Hibernate Spring Security WebFlux and Resilience4j for reliability.
Develop front-end features using React TypeScript focusing on performance accessibility and maintainable components.
Establish and enforce API standards (OpenAPI/Swagger) linting and SDK generation where appropriate.
Cloud & DevOps (AWS)
Architect implement and operate workloads on AWS:
o Compute: ECS/Fargate EKS Lambda
o Networking: VPC ALB/NLB PrivateLink API Gateway Route 53
o Data: RDS/Aurora DynamoDB ElastiCache/Redis S3 OpenSearch
o Integration: SNS/SQS EventBridge Step Functions Kinesis
o Security: IAM KMS Secrets Manager WAF Shield Cognito/OIDC
Build secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins) IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation and implement blue/green or canary deployments with automated rollbacks.
Implement observability: distributed tracing structured logging metrics and SLOs via CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana.
Leadership & Collaboration
Mentor engineers lead code/design reviews and foster engineering excellence.
Collaborate with Product Architecture and Security on roadmaps discovery and prioritization.
Champion documentation: API specs runbooks postmortems and playbooks.

Required Qualifications:
14 years professional software engineering experience; 3 years architecting cloud-native services on AWS.
Expert in Java 11/17 Spring Boot REST JSON OpenAPI and asynchronous messaging (SNS/SQS/Kafka).
Strong with integration patterns (sync/async) API versioning backwards compatibility schema evolution and contract testing (Pact/WireMock).
Proficient with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Aurora) and at least one NoSQL (DynamoDB/DocumentDB); caching with Redis.
Proficient in CI/CD IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) Docker and container orchestration (ECS/EKS).
Solid observability (logs metrics traces) and performance tuning (JVM DB API latency throughput).
Security-first mindset: IAM KMS Secrets Manager WAF CORS CSP input validation.
Front-end capability with React TypeScript (or Angular) including state mgmt (Redux/RTK/React Query) routing and component design.

Tools & Tech Stack:
Back End: Java 17 Spring Boot Spring Cloud WebFlux JPA/Hibernate Resilience4j
APIs: REST GraphQL OpenAPI/Swagger Pact
Messaging & Events: Kafka/SNS/SQS EventBridge Kinesis
Data: PostgreSQL/Aurora DynamoDB Redis S3 OpenSearch
Front End: React 18 TypeScript Vite/Webpack Jest Cypress/Playwright
DevOps & Cloud: AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda API Gateway ALB Route 53 CloudFront) Docker Terraform/CloudFormation Jenkins CloudWatch Grafana/Prometheus

Preferred Qualifications:
Event-driven architectures with EventBridge/Kinesis CDC (Debezium) and saga patterns (Step Functions/temporal-like orchestration).
GraphQL (Apollo/Federation) and BFF patterns; API monetization and developer portal experience.
Multi-account AWS strategy landing zones network segmentation and service mesh (App Mesh/Istio).
Kubernetes (EKS) Helm service autoscaling pod disruption budgets and cost optimization (Graviton/Spot).
Experience in regulated environments (PCI SOC 2 HIPAA) and data privacy (PII GDPR).

Role: Lead Java Full Stack Developer with AWS Location: Plano TX / Jersey City NJ (Hybrid) Job Type: Contract Skill Metrics: AWS CloudWatch AWS Cloud AWS Java 11 Top skills required for this role: API Design Architecture & Integration AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda API Gateway ALB Ro...