Senior Full Stack Developer / Technical Solution Architect

Akiak Enterprise Services; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote policy

Job summary

Akiak Technology is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer / Technical Solution Architect to support a federal program. You will design, develop, and review code in Java/Spring Boot and React/TypeScript, while driving architecture decisions across AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, data models, and DevSecOps practices.

You will lead data migration efforts from NoSQL to PostgreSQL, ensure API contracts, security, and performance, and collaborate with product owners to translate requirements into practical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with substantial hands-on development responsibility.
• Expert-level Java and Spring Boot experience, including REST APIs, microservices, testing, debugging, and production support.
• Experience modernizing Ruby on Rails to Java/Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, review, troubleshoot, and enhance applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Serve as a senior hands-on technical contributor across coding, debugging, testing, code reviews, design decisions, and production support.
• Review code for quality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build backend services using Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, and PostgreSQL.
• Troubleshoot front-end/backend integration, API contracts, authentication/authorization, and end-to-end application issues.
• Partner with product owners and engineers to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Provide hands-on architecture leadership across application modernization, microservices, APIs, integrations, data, and deployment.
• Support modernization of Ruby/Ruby on Rails applications to Java/Spring Boot, including legacy-code assessment and phased implementation.
• Lead data architecture decisions supporting migration from DynamoDB/NoSQL to PostgreSQL, including schema design and indexing.
• Define practical API, integration, and Java persistence patterns using Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Produce architecture artifacts like solution designs, data models, interface specs, deployment views, and ADRs.
• Validate architecture decisions through code, prototypes, reviews, and testing.
• Design and troubleshoot cloud-native solutions using AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, IAM, networking, and observability tools.
• Review and troubleshoot Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Terraform modules, containers, and EKS deployments.
• Partner with DevSecOps teams to strengthen CI/CD automation, security, environment consistency, deployment reliability, and rollback capabilities.
• Support migration from GitHub Actions to Harness, improving build, test, security scanning, approvals, artifact promotion, deployment, observability, and rollback processes.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and repeatable environment provisioning using Terraform.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

React/TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

DevSecOps

REST APIs/microservices

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Role Summary

Akiak Technology is seeking aSenior Full Stack Developer / Technical Solution Architectto support a mission-critical federal program. This is primarily ahands-on software engineering rolewith responsibility for practical solution architecture. The ideal candidate brings deepJava/Spring Bootexpertise, working knowledge ofReact/TypeScript, and strong experience acrossAWS, EKS/Kubernetes, data architecture, andDevSecOps. This individual must be comfortable working directly in the codebase - designing and reviewing code, troubleshooting production issues, evaluating pipelines and infrastructure, and translating architecture decisions into working solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Full Stack Engineering

• Design, develop, review, troubleshoot, and enhance applications usingJava, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, REST APIs, and microservices.

• Serve as a senior hands-on technical contributor across coding, debugging, testing, code reviews, design decisions, and production support.

• Review code forquality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Build backend services usingSpring Boot, Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, and PostgreSQL.

• Troubleshoot front-end/backend integration, API contracts, authentication/authorization, and end-to-end application issues.

• Partner with product owners and engineers to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.

Software, Data & Integration Architecture

• Provide hands-on architecture leadership acrossapplication modernization, microservices, APIs, integrations, data, and deployment.

• Support modernization ofRuby/Ruby on Rails applications to Java/Spring Boot, including legacy-code assessment, service redesign, API migration, and phased implementation.

• Lead data architecture and engineering decisions supporting migration fromDynamoDB/NoSQL to PostgreSQL, including schema design, data mapping, indexing, SQL performance, and persistence changes.

• Define practical API, integration, and Java persistence patterns usingSpring Data, JPA, and Hibernate.

• Produce lightweight, implementation-focused architecture artifacts such as solution designs, data models, interface specifications, deployment views, andArchitecture Decision Records (ADRs).

• Validate architecture decisions throughcode, prototypes, technical reviews, and testing.

AWS, Platform & DevSecOps

• Design and troubleshoot cloud-native solutions usingAWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, IAM, networking, and observability tools.

• Review and troubleshoot Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Terraform modules, containers, and EKS deployments.

• Partner withDevSecOpsteams to strengthenCI/CD automation, security, environment consistency, deployment reliability, and rollback capabilities.

• Support migration fromGitHub Actions to Harness, improving build, test, security scanning, approvals, artifact promotion, deployment, observability, and rollback processes.

• Support infrastructure-as-code and repeatable environment provisioning usingTerraform.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ yearsof progressive software engineering experience with substantial recent hands-on development responsibility.

• Expert-levelJava and Spring Bootexperience, including REST APIs, microservices, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and production support.

• Experience modernizing or migratingRuby/Ruby on Rails applications to Java/Spring Boot.

• WorkingproficiencywithReact and TypeScript, including front-end/backend integration.

• Strong experience withPostgreSQL, SQL, relational data modeling, Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate.

• Experience withDynamoDB or comparable NoSQL technologies; DynamoDB-to-PostgreSQL migration experience is highly desirable.

• Strong hands-on experience withAWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform.

• StrongCI/CD andDevSecOpsexperience, including GitHub Actions and secure software delivery practices.

• Ability to troubleshoot acrossapplication code, pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and AWS services.

• Understanding ofOAuth 2.0, OIDC, IAM, RBAC, and modern application security patterns.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain andmaintainrequiredPublic Trust or contract-specific suitability.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DHS clearance/suitability.

• Hands-onHarnessexperience, particularly CI/CD migration from GitHub Actions or another platform.

• Direct production experience migratingDynamoDB/NoSQL to PostgreSQL.

• Experience supportingUSCIS, DHS, or other federal digital services programs.

• Experience withFedRAMP and federal security/compliance requirements.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate level as a minimum)

• Experience with observability, automated testing, performance engineering, and production reliability in Kubernetes/EKS environment

Teleworking:

The company has a hybrid remote policy for all employees and is dependent upon the type of position.This position may be assigned to support a federal contract, or to work in office. The Company’s teleworking eligibility may not apply if the employee is supporting a federal services contract. In this instance, the employee may be subject to federal telework policies and may be required to work onsite in the federal facility when requested.

Employee Non-Disclosure:

The employee must sign and attest to the Company’s non-disclosure statement. The employee is responsible for reporting to the Company’s Compliance, Risk and Ethics Officer any conflicts of interest, and/or provide notification of outside employment, or when release of confidential business isshared with external parties.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Akiak Family of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and administers its employment practices in compliance with federal law, including implementation of the Tribal Preference policy to the extent permitted. All aspects of employment will be governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.

Contract -Mandated U.S. Citizenship

Because this position supports a federal contract that restricts performance to U.S. citizens, you will be required to provideproof of U.S. citizenship(e.g., a U.S. passport or passport card; a U.S. birth certificate with a government-issued photo ID; or a Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship).This request issolelyto confirmcontract eligibilityand isseparate from Form I-9. For the I-9, you may presentanyacceptable document(s) of your choosing; we do notrequest or require specific I-9 documents. We will completeEVerify- within 3 business days of your start datein accordance with federal requirements.