Principal Engineer (AWS & Java)

Jobstreet Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company in Kuala Lumpur seeks a CTO delegate to lead technical initiatives and manage a Java-focused engineering team. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in deploying AWS infrastructure with CDK, technical leadership skills, and a proven ability to manage production incidents. Responsibilities include driving the team's success, improving processes, and presenting vital updates to executive management. This role emphasizes ownership and executive collaboration in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience delivering backend services using Java and Spring Boot/Spring Framework.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role, with team leading experience.
• Production experience with AWS infrastructure using CDK.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical leadership duties as needed.
• Coordinate with Engineering, QA and Project Leads.
• Present updates to CEO and executive team.
• Negotiate with vendors and mentor tech leads.

Skills

Technical leadership

Java

Spring Boot/Spring Framework

AWS-CDK

MySQL

Team leadership

Job description

Overview

If you have already shipped large-scale product features with AWS-CDK and led a team of Java engineers, read on—this is the step-up into deputy-level technical authority you’ve been waiting for.

We need a battle-tested engineer-manager who can stand in as the CTO delegate whenever he is out of the room: make architectural calls, unblock teams, own production incidents, and keep modernisation projects moving. You will not be coding every day, but the organisation must trust that you can open a Java/Kotlin repo, spot design gaps, and push the critical fix if the situation demands it.

CTO Delegate Responsibilities

• Takes ownership of technical leadership duties when the CTO is unavailable
• Coordinate Engineering, QA and Project Leads so releases land on time
• Present risk, budget and roadmap updates to the CEO and exec team
• Negotiate with vendors, audit security posture, mentor tech leads and senior engineers
• Communicates and enforces standards, policies, and priorities set by the CTO

Stack Ownership

• Group-wide ownership of production environment standards
• AWS infrastructure designed, deployed, managed and versioned with CDK (TypeScript)
• Hybrid cloud + on-prem: Linux VMs, firewalls, virtualised servers
• MySQL: schema, indexing, query tuning, partitioning, clustering
• GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Production operations leadership, including monitoring standards, incident response processes, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement

Recent Initiatives

• Carving a legacy monolith into bounded-context services, including modernisation of outdated frameworks and dependencies
• Transform legacy VMs servers into AWS EC2/ECS/Fargate using AWS CDK-defined
• Tune and optimise JVM servers
• Introduce organisation-wide SLOs and error-budget governance

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience delivering backend services using Java and Spring Boot/Spring Framework, including the recent 3 years in a technical leadership role; server-side Kotlin exposure is a plus
• Demonstrated experience leading a team of ≥4 JVM engineers
• Production track record of designing AND deploying AWS infrastructure with CDK
• Deep relational-database muscle

Interview Process

Interviews fast-track

Apply online by sending your CV + a short note describing the largest AWS-CDK stack you’ve put in prod and the size of the JVM team you led. We will schedule a 2-hour technical chat between you and the CTO within 48 hours for the right profiles.