Remote Java Full-Stack Tech Lead

Insight Global; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Lead Java Full-Stack Developer to drive the hands-on modernization of a large-scale enterprise application. This role involves architecture leadership, stack upgrades, and production delivery while remaining deeply engaged in development.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in Java/Spring and Angular, strong mentoring skills, and proven delivery in OpenShift/Kubernetes environments, working across product and security teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise Java development experience, including Spring Boot and/or Spring MVC.
• 3+ years of experience developing REST APIs, microservices, backend services, and enterprise integrations.
• Full-stack development experience with Angular
• Strong experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience working with cloud environments and container platforms such as OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Test-Driven Development
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0/OIDC, Spring Security, secrets management, messaging, and secure engineering practices.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with development.
• Experience independently owning technical deliverables from design through production.
• Experience with DB2 and MQ.
• Strong mentoring, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, design reviews, and engineering best practices within an Agile development team.
• Design, develop, and modernize applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and REST APIs.
• Build and support backend services, microservices, business logic, and enterprise integrations.
• Lead application and technology-stack upgrades while ensuring system stability and production readiness.
• Validate and troubleshoot integrations across DB2, MQ, FTP/email, identity services, secrets management, and container platforms.
• Drive secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, automated testing, TDD, peer code reviews, and CI/CD.
• Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues and help drive them through resolution.
• Coordinate deployments and releases while proactively identifying and managing technical risks.
• Mentor engineers and help establish consistent development standards across the team.
• Partner closely with product, business, security, infrastructure, database, mainframe, and platform teams to deliver key priorities.

Skills

Java (Spring Boot / Spring MVC)

REST APIs / Microservices

Angular

SQL / Relational Databases

CI/CD / Testing / TDD

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC / Spring Security

Leadership / Mentoring

Cloud / OpenShift / Kubernetes

DB2 / MQ

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

DB2

MQ

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Lead Java Full-Stack Developer to drive the hands-on modernization of a large-scale enterprise application. This role involves architecture leadership, stack upgrades, and production delivery while remaining deeply engaged in development.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in Java/Spring and Angular, strong mentoring skills, and proven delivery in OpenShift/Kubernetes environments, working across product and security teams.