Lead Software Engineer - Java, AWS

, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java development concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals such as algorithms, data structures, multi-threading, functional programming, distributed applications, client-server architecture
• Strong experience in building performant, scalable and reliable micro services
• Experience in Core Java & EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Flux & Spring Security frameworks
• Experience in Web UI development using ReactJS, TypeScript, Html 5, CSS 3
• Relational Database development skills including SQL and data modelling
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with designing and building applications natively on AWS, utilizing key services such as AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, S3, Aurora, and API Gateway
• Experience with unit and integration tools and techniques including JUnit, mocking and test-driven development
• Experience in high availability development and architectural practices
• Must possess excellent analytical, problem solving, & decision-making skills
• Proven track record of technical leadership experience