Tech Lead – Java Backend / Full Stack / AWS (with Python Exposure) at Columbus, OH/Wilmington, DE (Onsite)
Shivam Singh
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Job Title: Tech Lead – Java Backend / Full Stack / AWS (with Python Exposure)
Location: Columbus, OH/Wilmington, DE (Onsite)
Contract
Need Local Consultants Only
Need someone from Banking/Finance Domain
Experience: 15+ Years
Job Description:
Role Overview
We are looking for a Tech Lead who can drive architecture, delivery, and team leadership across Java backend, full‑stack development, AWS cloud services, and event‑driven systems. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with Kafka, data pipelines, and working knowledge of Python for automation, scripting, or data workflows. This role leads an 8‑engineer team and ensures high‑quality, scalable, cloud‑native solutions.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead design and development of Java‑based backend services and full‑stack applications.
· Architect and implement event‑driven systems using Kafka and AWS messaging services.
· Oversee data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline workflows.
· Build and optimize Microservices using AWS Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, EventBridge.
· Ensure secure, scalable cloud architecture using S3, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch.
· Integrate GenAI capabilities using AWS Bedrock.
· Use Python scripting for automation, data processing, or pipeline orchestration where needed.
· Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to an 8‑member engineering team.
· Collaborate with product, DevOps, and architecture teams to align on delivery goals.
· Drive engineering excellence in CI/CD, testing, observability, and performance.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Engineering
· Expert‑level Java backend development
· Full‑stack familiarity (React/Angular/Vue or similar)
· Strong understanding of Microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems
Eventing & Data
· Hands‑on experience with Kafka (topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution)
· Familiarity with data pipelines, ETL flows, and streaming/batch processing
AWS Cloud Expertise
· Compute & Serverless: Lambda, ECS, Fargate
· Storage & Databases: S3, DynamoDB
· Integration & Messaging: API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge
· Networking & Security: VPC, IAM
· Monitoring: CloudWatch
· GenAI: Bedrock
Leadership & Delivery
· Experience leading teams of 6–10 engineers
· Strong communication, delegation, and stakeholder alignment
· Ability to drive architecture decisions and balance trade‑offs
· Proven track record delivering complex cloud‑native systems
Nice to Have
· CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Code Pipeline)
· IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)
· Container security and observability tooling
· Exposure to ML/AI or LLM‑based integrations
Shivam Singh
Technical Recruiter | eHub Global