Senior Full Stack Engineer (Java AWS)

Senior Full Stack Engineer (Java / AWS)
Whippany NJ (HYBRID - 3 DAYS A WEEK ONSITE / LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY)
Duration: 1 Year

The engineering team within US-Financial Services is dedicated to designing developing and deploying mission-critical software systems for a major US banking client. The teams mission is to drive digital transformation by building highly scalable resilient and secure financial applications using modern full-stack and cloud-native architectures.

• Architect and develop full-stack solutions using Java/Spring backend React/Angular frontend and AWS cloud services.
• Lead design sessions technical planning and backlog refinement for engineering tasks.
• Define coding standards secure coding practices and performance guidelines while driving CI/CD maturity observability and DevOps best practices.
• Guide the definition of cloud-native patterns including serverless architectures microservices and containerization.
• Mentor engineers conduct robust code reviews and influence cross-team engineering decisions.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Solution Architects on the product roadmap and technical strategy to ensure application reliability and scalability.

• Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud and Microservices Architecture (10 years)
• React or Angular Frontend Development (5 years)
• Advanced System Design Distributed Systems and Integration Architecture (8 years)

• AWS Expert-level proficiency (EC2 Lambda API Gateway ECS/EKS S3 RDS IAM)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation)
• High-scale event streaming (Kafka Kinesis) and Advanced Container Orchestration (EKS Kubernetes)
• Observability stacks (Datadog CloudWatch Prometheus/Grafana)

The ideal candidate is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with an authoritative leadership-driven technical background and a proven track record within the Financial Services domain. They possess strong strategic communication skills to guide engineering teams mentor junior talent and seamlessly collaborate with Solution Architects. This candidate should thrive in high-stakes banking environments and hold active technical certifications which are highly weighted for this position.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design development and deployment of secure high-scale full-stack solutions using Java/Spring backend and React/Angular frontend frameworks.
• Architect cloud-native infrastructure and microservices patterns leveraging AWS cloud services and advanced container orchestration.
• Drive CI/CD maturity automation and system observability using modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Mentor engineering team members establish rigorous coding standards and facilitate technical planning and cross-team design sessions.