The client is looking for someone with the following:
About you:
- Extensive experience building modern applications using Java 17+ and Spring Boot within cloud-native environments.
- A deep understanding of designing and operating resilient, observable, scalable, and maintainable distributed systems.
- Proven experience leading technical design, architecture, and engineering decision-making across complex technology landscapes.
- The ability to remain hands-on with coding while also providing technical leadership and strategic direction.
- Experience developing proof-of-concepts, assessing emerging technologies, and guiding technology adoption decisions.
- Strong knowledge of system scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence principles.
- A passion for mentoring engineers and elevating technical capability, engineering standards, and best practices across teams.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across both technical and business audiences.
- Practical experience leveraging and advocating for AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or similar technologies to improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Sound understanding of technology lifecycle management, including obsolescence planning, security, regulatory compliance, privacy requirements, and risk management.
- Experience designing and implementing solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven architecture patterns in large-scale distributed systems.
