Description

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and design enterprise applications using Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures leveraging Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SNS.
• Lead architecture reviews and evaluate solution designs for scalability, resiliency, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Establish application architecture standards, reusable frameworks, and coding best practices.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient distributed systems.
• Review code and provide recommendations for improving modularity, performance, and maintainability.
• Guide engineering teams on Kafka streaming architecture, event processing, and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Design and review API strategies, service-to-service communication, and integration patterns.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, cloud engineering, and product teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
• Mentor engineers and serve as the technical authority on application architecture and cloud-native design.

Required Qualifications

• 18+ years of software development experience with at least 8 years as an Application Architect or Technical Architect.
• Expert-level experience with:
• Java
• Spring Framework
• Spring Boot
• Apache Kafka
• Strong experience designing event-driven and microservices-based architectures.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Python for automation, serverless functions, or supporting services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and enterprise integration patterns.

Core Technical Skills

Application Development

• Java
• Spring Framework
• Spring Boot
• Python
• RESTful APIs
• Microservices Architecture

Kafka Expertise

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience with Kafka streaming, including:

• Kafka cluster and node setup
• Topic design and partitioning strategies
• Producer and consumer design
• Consumer groups
• Offset management
• Error handling and retry strategies
• Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) implementation
• Message ordering and idempotency
• Performance tuning
• Debugging Kafka producers and consumers
• Monitoring and troubleshooting streaming applications

AWS Expertise

Hands-on experience designing applications using AWS services, including:

• AWS Lambda
• AWS Step Functions
• Amazon SQS
• Amazon SNS
• Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon ECS/EKS (preferred)
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS IAM
• Amazon S3

Architecture & Integration

Strong experience with:

• Event-driven architecture
• Service routing
• API design and integration
• Service orchestration
• Error handling and exception management
• Distributed transaction patterns
• Resiliency and failover design
• High availability architecture
• Performance optimization
• Secure application integration

Database Experience

Working knowledge of application and database design with experience in one or more of:

• CockroachDB
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQL-based relational databases

Responsibilities include:

• Basic database schema design
• Data modeling
• Transaction management
• Query optimization
• Database integration with microservices

Leadership Expectations

• Lead architecture and design discussions across engineering teams.
• Evaluate existing applications and recommend architectural improvements.
• Drive adoption of engineering standards and best practices.
• Mentor developers and technical leads.
• Influence technical decisions through strong architectural leadership.
• Balance business priorities with scalable, maintainable technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree