AWS Technical Lead/Sr. Java/Angular Developer

General Dynamics Information Technology•USA FL Home Office (FLHOME), FL
•$131,750 - $178,250•Remote

About The Position

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring a strong software engineering background, broad AWS cloud expertise, and the ability to lead and mentor developers. The role involves serving as a key technical point of contact between the development team, program leadership, and the customer, translating requirements into technical specifications, and designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise applications. The position also provides technical leadership for applications deployed in AWS, focusing on architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resiliency. Responsibilities include building, deploying, and troubleshooting containerized applications, developing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, and designing relational data solutions. The role emphasizes applying modern application patterns, supporting application observability, promoting software engineering best practices, and supporting team workload planning and professional development.

Requirements

  • MUST HAVE AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, including experience developing enterprise applications in Agile environments.
  • 2+ years of technical leadership experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Software Architect, or equivalent.
  • Strong hands-on Java and Spring/Spring Boot development experience; Java 21 or recent Java LTS versions preferred.
  • Experience developing modern web applications using Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ preferred.
  • Experience designing and developing REST APIs and micro-service-based applications.
  • 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production workloads.
  • Strong understanding of AWS architecture and core services, including ECS/ECR, VPC/networking, IAM, load balancing, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Secrets Management.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, resiliency, high availability, and observability.
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, SQL, and Java persistence technologies such as Hibernate/JPA or MyBatis.
  • Experience with automated testing, code quality, security scanning, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Experience with application monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a geographically distributed, 100% remote development team.
  • Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical and people leadership.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills across application, container, database, networking, and AWS infrastructure layers.
  • Ability to translate business and user requirements into effective technical solutions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with customers and technical/non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with people-management or team-lead responsibilities including mentoring, performance feedback, workload/capacity management, and professional development.
  • Ability to prioritize work, identify technical risks, and drive engineering best practices.

Nice To Haves

  • GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runner experience.
  • Linux and shell scripting.
  • JUnit, SonarQube, Playwright, Karma, or comparable testing/code-quality tools.
  • Experience with enterprise authentication/SSO or DSSO.
  • Section 508 accessibility experience.
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
  • Familiarity with additional AWS services and event-driven/server-less architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a small, distributed Agile development team while remaining hands-on with architecture, design, development, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
  • Serve as a key technical point of contact between the development team, program leadership, and customer.
  • Translate customer and user requirements into technical specifications, architectural approaches, and implementation plans.
  • Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and relational databases.
  • Provide technical leadership for applications deployed in AWS, including architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resiliency.
  • Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Amazon ECS.
  • Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Design and maintain relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and/or Oracle and persistence frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA and MyBatis.
  • Apply modern application patterns including micro-services, asynchronous processing, caching, automated testing, and secure software development.
  • Support application observability and production troubleshooting using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
  • Promote software engineering best practices and identify opportunities to improve application performance, security, maintainability, and architecture.
  • Support team workload/capacity planning, technical mentoring, performance feedback, and professional development.

Benefits

  • Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan
  • 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time
  • Holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Military leave
  • Bereavement leave
  • Jury duty leave
  • 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Personal accident insurance
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Business travel and accident insurance
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