Senior LeadPrincipal Full Stack Engineer


Job Location:

Morristown, NJ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: WHIPPANY NEW JERSEY (Local candidates only; EST)

Please focus on senior Java engineers with 10 years of experience who have strong Spring Boot Spring Cloud and microservices backgrounds. Candidates should also have significant AWS experience and hands-on experience with React or Angular. Financial services or banking experience is highly preferred. This is a hybrid role in Whippany NJ so candidates must be local and able to work onsite 3 days per week.

Work Setup: Strict hybrid schedule requiring 3 fixed days in office per week in Whippany NJ. Local candidates only.
Business Driver: System scale-up and modern engineering delivery for a major US Bank client. High likelihood of extension beyond the initial 45-week period.
Deliverables: High-scale full-stack architecture blueprints production-ready microservices automated CI/CD pipelines and mentorship indicators.

TOP HARD SKILLS
Java/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud/Microservices: 10 years of expert development experience.
React or Angular Frontend UI: 5 years of production experience.
AWS Cloud native ecosystem: Expert proficiency (EC2 Lambda API Gateway EKS).

NICE-TO-HAVES
Financial Services / Banking Domain Experience.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Advanced Container Orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
Masters Degree or Computer Engineering degree.

DISQUALIFIERS
Candidates unable or unwilling to work 3 days a week onsite in Whippany NJ.
Non-local candidates requiring relocation.
Less than 10 years of Core Java and Spring Boot experience.

POSITION OVERVIEW The Senior Full Stack Engineer will join a mission-critical team within our US-Financial Services division helping shape engineering standards architectural direction and technical strategy for a prominent US banking client. The teams mission is to design develop and deploy scalable cloud-native banking solutions that ensure utmost application reliability security and performance. DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Architect full-stack solutions using a 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 for the engineering team.
  • Drive CI/CD maturity observability and DevOps best practices across the development lifecycle.
  • Guide the definition of cloud-native patterns including serverless microservices and containerization.
  • Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with Product Owners and Solution Architects on roadmap and technical strategy.
TOP 3 REQUIRED SKILLS
  • Java Spring Boot & Spring Cloud: 10 years (Expert-level proficiency required)
  • Microservices Architecture & Advanced System Design: 8 years
  • React or Angular Frontend Development: 5 years
ADDITIONAL DESIRED SKILLS
  • AWS Expert-Level Cloud Infrastructure (EC2 Lambda API Gateway ECS/EKS S3 RDS IAM)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
  • Event Streaming Technologies (Kafka or Kinesis)
  • Observability Stacks (Datadog CloudWatch Prometheus or Grafana)
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

The ideal candidate is an expert-level hands-on technical leader with a robust background in the US Financial Services or banking domain. They hold a degree in Computer Engineering or a Masters degree possess active AWS certifications and bring an authoritative blend of full-stack development and distributed systems architecture experience.

Job Responsibilities

  • Architect develop and deliver high-performance full-stack solutions using a Java/Spring backend modern frontend frameworks (React/Angular) and native AWS cloud systems.
  • Lead engineering design sessions cross-team technical planning and structured backlog refinements.
  • Establish code quality baselines secure development paradigms DevOps maturity models and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Mentor team members participate in intensive code reviews and influence engineering decisions across complex enterprise ecosystems.
Location: WHIPPANY NEW JERSEY (Local candidates only; EST) Please focus on senior Java engineers with 10 years of experience who have strong Spring Boot Spring Cloud and microservices backgrounds. Candidates should also have significant AWS experience and hands-on experience with React or Angular. F...