AWS Tech Lead - Java & Angular Enterprise Developer

General Dynamics IT; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Software Developer Senior Principal on the East Coast, requiring hands-on leadership, broad AWS cloud expertise, and strong Java/Spring Boot development. You will mentor developers, design and implement enterprise apps, and ensure scalable, secure solutions in AWS.

Responsibilities include leading a distributed team, translating requirements into architectures, and delivering RESTful services with Angular frontend and relational databases.

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including enterprise applications in Agile environments.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Software Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring/Spring Boot development experience; Java 21 or recent Java LTS versions preferred.
• Experience developing modern web applications using Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ preferred.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs and micro-service-based applications.
• 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production workloads.
• Strong understanding of AWS architecture and core services, including ECS/ECR, VPC/networking, IAM, load balancing, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Secrets Management.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, resiliency, high availability, and observability.
• Experience with Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, SQL, and Java persistence technologies such as Hibernate/JPA or MyBatis.
• Experience with automated testing, code quality, security scanning, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with application monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a geographically distributed, 100% remote development team.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical and people leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills across application, container, database, networking, and AWS infrastructure layers.
• Ability to translate business and user requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with customers and technical/non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with people-management or team-lead responsibilities including mentoring, performance feedback, workload/capacity management, and professional development.
• Ability to prioritize work, identify technical risks, and drive engineering best practices.
• GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runner experience.
• Linux and shell scripting.
• JUnit, SonarQube, Playwright, Karma, or comparable testing/code-quality tools.
• Experience with enterprise authentication/SSO or DSSO.
• Section 508 accessibility experience.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small, distributed Agile development team while remaining hands-on with architecture, design, development, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
• Serve as a key technical point of contact between the development team, program leadership, and customer.
• Translate customer and user requirements into technical specifications, architectural approaches, and implementation plans.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and relational databases.
• Provide technical leadership for applications deployed in AWS, including architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resiliency.
• Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and maintain relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and/or Oracle and persistence frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA and MyBatis.
• Apply modern application patterns including micro-services, asynchronous processing, caching, automated testing, and secure software development.
• Support application observability and production troubleshooting using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
• Promote software engineering best practices and identify opportunities to improve application performance, security, maintainability, and architecture.
• Support team workload/capacity planning, technical mentoring, performance feedback, and professional development.

Skills

AWS

Angular UI

Java

Spring Boot

Tools

Docker

Terraform/OpenTofu

Git

Job description

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Software Developer Senior Principal on the East Coast, requiring hands-on leadership, broad AWS cloud expertise, and strong Java/Spring Boot development. You will mentor developers, design and implement enterprise apps, and ensure scalable, secure solutions in AWS.

Responsibilities include leading a distributed team, translating requirements into architectures, and delivering RESTful services with Angular frontend and relational databases.