Lead Java Full Stack Engineer - Java/Spring and React - 1657

Must Have:

• At least five years of software engineering experience.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring.
  
• Recent hands-on React development experience within the last two years.
  
• Experience building and maintaining user-facing web applications.
  
• Experience with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
  
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, including MySQL or PostgreSQL.
  
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services.
  
• Experience developing both frontend applications and backend services.
  

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software solutions.
  
• Build and maintain React-based user interfaces and backend services.
  
• Develop frontend features that integrate with RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
  
• Own medium- to large-scale features from design through production.
  
• Contribute to frontend, backend, and system architecture decisions.
  
• Write production-ready code and participate in code and design reviews.
  
• Improve application performance, observability, reliability, and resiliency.
  
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
  
• Collaborate with Product, UX Design, QA, and engineering teams.
  
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Strong understanding of full-stack architecture, client-server communication, APIs, and distributed systems.
  
• Experience with modern frontend development using React.
  
• Experience with cloud-native development, stateless services, horizontal scaling, and observability.
  
• Ability to solve complex technical problems with limited guidance.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Ability to work effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience with TypeScript.
  
• Experience with Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
  
• Experience with AWS or another cloud platform.
  
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon SNS/SQS.
  
• Experience in advertising technology or media-processing workflows.
  
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or Amazon Q Developer.