Java Technical Lead

DRS IT Solutions; California; Presencial; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

DRS IT Solutions in California is seeking a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead who can design, develop, deploy, and operate a production backend service while collaborating across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.

You will own the end-to-end service, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision, delivering scalable systems using Kotlin/Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.

Qualificações

• Hands-on production experience with Kotlin/Java/JVM and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB, incl data modeling and indexing.
• Experience with Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, async processing, retries, and idempotency.
• Deployment experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking.
• Strong testing practices with Testcontainers.
• Production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and cross-functional ownership.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate a production backend service.
• Collaborate across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
• Own end-to-end service ownership and drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision.

Conhecimentos

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Unit and integration testing

Ferramentas

Kotlin

Java/JVM

Spring Boot

REST APIs

MongoDB/DocumentDB

Kafka

Avro

Schema Registry

AWS

EKS/Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

IAM/IRSA

Vault

Service networking

Testcontainers

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer/Technical Lead

This person must be capable of independently designing, developing, deploying, and operating a production backend service while working effectively across application, infrastructure, security, and product teams.

Key requirements:

• Strong production experience with Kotlin or Java/JVM and Spring Boot


• Experience designing and supporting REST APIs and distributed systems


• Strong knowledge of MongoDB or Amazon DocumentDB, including data modeling, indexing, migrations, concurrency, and atomic updates


• Experience with Kafka, Avro, Schema Registry, asynchronous processing, retries, and idempotency


• Hands-on deployment experience with AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD


• Working knowledge of AWS IAM/IRSA, secrets management/Vault, and service networking


• Strong testing practices, including unit and integration testing with tools such as Testcontainers


• Experience with production observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and safe rollback strategies


• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to drive cross-functional work with minimal supervision

Nice-to-have experience:

• Temporal workflows


• Confluent Cloud


• Istio and OPA


• OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or Honeycomb


• Gradle, CircleCI, Jib, Cosign, and Snyk


• Legacy-system modernization or migration projects


• This is primarily a backend and platform-oriented role, not a frontend, pure DevOps, people-management, or machine-learning position. We need a senior individual contributor who remains hands-on and can take end-to-end ownership of the service.