Senior Full-Stack Engineer & 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

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