AWS Cloud-Native Engineering Manager (Backend)

EPAM Systems; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks an AWS Cloud-Native Engineering Manager to lead full-stack backend development spanning microservices, APIs, and data store architecture, while providing hands-on leadership to a high-performing engineering team.

You will own technology decisions, drive architecture, collaborate with the CTO organization and client teams, ensure governance, and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions across the stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• 5+ years designing and developing front-end apps, microservices, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on technology leadership experience in full-stack development or with most technologies listed in the stack.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Proficiency in Java, Node.js, Angular, and TypeScript.
• Expertise in Java, SpringBoot, microservices, and API development.
• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Firehose, DynamoDB, EKS, and CloudWatch.
• Knowledge of DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and DB2 (legacy).
• Familiarity with Python, Splunk, Cucumber, and API testing tools.
• Understanding of AWS Cloud Native microservices architecture.
• Expertise in the API economy with strong business acumen.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and client-facing skills, with strong organizational abilities and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and accountability for technology solutions and output delivered by the team.
• Provide technology thought leadership and assist the team in making the right decisions.
• Remove technology-related obstacles throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work with other architects, the CTO organization, and ensure technology governance and best practices are followed.
• Understand functional and non-functional requirements and quality attributes, and build solutions that address them.
• Contribute to and improve architecture and design.
• Build, review, and ensure quality of data models, API contracts, architecture, framework, and code.
• Assist in effort estimation, planning, prioritization, and dependency identification.
• Manage all technology artifacts.
• Analyze legacy applications and define target state design and architecture.
• Collaborate with other teams at client's Database, CTO organization, API Economy team, and similar groups.

Skills

Technical leadership

Full-stack development

Microservices

REST APIs

Architecture design

Agile methodology

Cross-functional collaboration

Client-facing communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science preferred

Tools

Java

Node.js

Angular

TypeScript

SpringBoot

EC2

S3

Lambda

Kinesis

DynamoDB

EKS

CloudWatch

PostgreSQL

DB2

Python

Splunk

Cucumber

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks an AWS Cloud-Native Engineering Manager to lead full-stack backend development spanning microservices, APIs, and data store architecture, while providing hands-on leadership to a high-performing engineering team.

You will own technology decisions, drive architecture, collaborate with the CTO organization and client teams, ensure governance, and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions across the stack.