Senior Java & AWS Tech Lead — Cloud & Microservices

Programmers.io; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmers.io is seeking a Senior Java/AWS Tech Lead to drive architecture and delivery of enterprise applications onsite in San Antonio, TX. You will mentor distributed teams, define patterns, and lead design reviews for scalable microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.

You will build event-driven pipelines with Kafka, implement secure REST APIs, and champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, and resilience practices across the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS platforms.
• Experience leading enterprise software development and architecture decisions.
• Strong background in cloud-native design, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of enterprise apps using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS.
• Define architecture, patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor teams; conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design walkthroughs.

Skills

Java 11/17+

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

Spring Security

Spring Cloud

JPA / Hibernate

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams

Confluent Platform

Event-Driven Architecture

Asynchronous Messaging

AWS EC2

AWS ECS / EKS

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

SQS

SNS

CloudWatch

IAM

Microservices Architecture

DDD

Service Discovery

API Gateway Patterns

Distributed Transactions

Resiliency Patterns

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Oracle

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

OpenAPI / Swagger

JSON

OAuth 2.0

JWT

Splunk

ELK Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Programmers.io is seeking a Senior Java/AWS Tech Lead to drive architecture and delivery of enterprise applications onsite in San Antonio, TX. You will mentor distributed teams, define patterns, and lead design reviews for scalable microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.

You will build event-driven pipelines with Kafka, implement secure REST APIs, and champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, and resilience practices across the delivery lifecycle.