Description

Architect and design enterprise applications using Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot.

This role is remote.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Mentor engineers and serve as the technical authority on application architecture and cloud-native design.

Required Skills

• 18+ years of software development experience with at least 8 years as an Application Architect or Technical Architect.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience designing event-driven and microservices-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Python for automation, serverless functions, or supporting services.
• Deep expertise in Kafka streaming, including cluster setup, topic design, partitioning strategies, producer/consumer design, offset management, error handling, retry strategies, and Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) implementation.
• Proven experience building cloud-native applications on AWS, including AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon EC2.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and enterprise integration patterns.

Preferred Skills

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

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree