Technical Lead: Java & AWS — Remote, Profit-Sharing

Cresteo; Aurora, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Unlimited PTO

Equipment provided

Remote-friendly culture

US-based client exposure

Job summary

Cresteo is hiring a Software Engineer to transform the tech industry with an honest, people-centric approach. You will develop and maintain software solutions across a diverse stack, while shaping the architecture of distributed services.

You’ll drive engineering standards, mentor peers, and ensure secure, scalable deployments for US-based clients. You will work in a remote-friendly environment with a focus on collaboration, transparency, and tangible impact on product delivery and customer

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x in production environments.
• Extensive experience designing and operating AWS serverless architectures at scale.
• Experience owning architecture and evolution of distributed services across multiple deployments.
• Strong skills in serverless performance tuning, including cold starts and scaling.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform and AWS SAM.
• Proficient in GitLab CI/CD and deployment practices.
• Proven ability to define standards, lead code reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Experience with security, dependency management, and CVE triage.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Cresteo software solutions with a diverse tech stack.
• Architect and evolve distributed systems across services and deployments.
• Own delivery ownership and engineering quality, including incident handling.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead architectural reviews.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to communicate risks and trade-offs.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot 3.x

AWS serverless architecture

Distributed systems

Serverless performance optimization

Terraform

AWS SAM

GitLab CI/CD

Architecture ownership

Security & dependency management

Cost optimization (AWS)

Technical leadership

Client communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS SAM

GitLab CI/CD

IAM platforms (Curity, ForgeRock, Ping Identity, Auth0)

Job description

Cresteo is hiring a Software Engineer to transform the tech industry with an honest, people-centric approach. You will develop and maintain software solutions across a diverse stack, while shaping the architecture of distributed services.

You’ll drive engineering standards, mentor peers, and ensure secure, scalable deployments for US-based clients. You will work in a remote-friendly environment with a focus on collaboration, transparency, and tangible impact on product delivery and customer