3 months ago
Miami, FL, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of Java and Spring Boot microservices and distributed systems.
- Lead event-driven designs involving messaging, streaming, distributed transactions, saga patterns, and orchestration.
- Establish API standards, governance, versioning strategies, and integration practices.
- Guide engineers through technical decisions, code reviews, and delivery execution.
- Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive observability, resilience, security, performance, and AWS cost optimization initiatives.
- Evaluate technologies, remove technical blockers, and support long-term platform evolution.
- Mentor engineers and establish technical and development standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including 4+ years leading development teams or technical initiatives.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture design.
- Strong experience designing event-driven architectures with AWS services including Kinesis, SQS, and SNS.
- Hands-on experience with distributed transactions, saga patterns, and orchestration strategies.
- Strong AWS architecture experience with API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM, compute, networking, and security services.
- Experience defining observability strategies and implementing monitoring, tracing, and alerting solutions.
- Proven ability to lead engineers, drive technical decisions, and establish development standards.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, Camunda, or AWS Step Functions.
- Preferred Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD expertise using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Financial services or payments industry experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development, LLM-based solutions, MCP, RAG, and AI governance practices is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully on-site collaboration in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area; candidates must currently reside in the Miami area.
- Long-term contract engagement with high impact and autonomy.
- Strategic, high-visibility role within a modern engineering culture.
- Opportunity to influence technical strategy involving event-driven architectures and AI integrations.
- Collaborative international team with strong technical leadership and growth opportunities.
