AWS Technical Lead/Sr. Java/Angular Developer (US Citizenship Required)

General-Dynamics-Information-Technology; North Carolina; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Software Developer Senior Principal for a 100% remote role with East Coast hours. You will lead a distributed Agile team, while remaining hands-on in architecture, development, and troubleshooting.

Expect strong AWS expertise across ECS/ECR, VPC, IAM, and RDS, plus Java/Spring Boot and Angular work. You will design and implement REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native patterns, leveraging Terraform/OpenTofu, CI/CD, Docker, and

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including enterprise applications.
• 2+ years of technical leadership as a Technical Lead or Architect.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring/Spring Boot development experience.
• Experience with Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ preferred.
• Experience designing REST APIs and micro-services.
• 4+ years of hands-on AWS design, deployment, and operations.
• Strong AWS services knowledge: ECS/ECR, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a distributed Agile development team; stay hands-on with architecture and reviews.
• Serve as technical point of contact between dev team, leadership, and customer.
• Translate requirements into technical specs and implementation plans.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise apps using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and databases.
• Provide technical leadership for AWS-based apps: architecture, containers, security, observability, scalability.
• Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized apps with Docker and ECS.
• Develop cloud infra with Terraform/OpenTofu and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and Oracle; Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis.
• Promote modern patterns: microservices, asynchronous processing, testing, and secure dev.

Skills

AWS Certifications

Java

Spring Boot

Angular/TypeScript

REST APIs

Docker

Terraform/OpenTofu

CI/CD

PostgreSQL/Oracle

Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis

Tools

Docker

Terraform/OpenTofu

Git

CI/CD pipelines

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SR PRINCIPAL

*EAST COAST HOURS* **MUST HAVE CURRENT AWS CERTIFICATION**

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring a strong software engineering background, broad AWS cloud expertise, and the ability to lead and mentor developers.

Duties

• 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.

Required Experience and Technical Skills

• MUST HAVE AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including experience developing 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.

Leadership Skills and Abilities

• 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.

Preferred Skills

• 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.
• Familiarity with additional AWS services and event-driven/server-less architectures.

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL

Public Trust

LOCATION

100% remote - East Coast Hours

US Citizenship Required