Sr AWS Developer

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Java and object-oriented design
• Experience designing and building cloud-native applications
• Practical experience with AWS services and architecture
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as SQS, SNS, Kafka, or EventBridge
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with microservices or distributed service-oriented systems
• Experience with Docker and container-based development
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices including testing, code reviews, and CI/CD
• Experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to define detailed design and translate requirements into technical solutions
• Familiarity with security best practices, IAM, encryption, and secrets management
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Define detailed technical design

o Translate business and architecture requirements into clear, implementable low-level designs

o Produce design documentation, interface contracts, and technical estimates

• Design and develop cloud-native applications

o Build scalable, resilient, and maintainable services using Java and AWS

o Apply modern architecture patterns for distributed systems and enterprise platforms

• Develop event-driven and API-based solutions

o Design and implement asynchronous workflows using event-driven architecture

o Build secure, well-documented APIs and service integrations

• Work with serverless and containerized workloads

o Develop solutions using AWS Lambda, containers, and orchestration platforms such as ECS or EKS

o Choose the right runtime model based on performance, scale, and cost considerations

• Implement distributed system best practices

o Ensure reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and scalability

o Address concerns such as retries, idempotency, latency, and consistency

• Collaborate across teams and roles

o Partner with architects, product managers, and technical team members to shape technical solutions

o Contribute to design reviews and key design decision-making

o Partner with Quality Assurance engineer to plan, develop, automate, and execute software testing

• Follow engineering best practices

o Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.

o Leverage available AI based coding tools.

o Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD, and release processes

• Support application performance and operations

o Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems

o Investigate defects, incidents, and performance issues in collaboration with support and operations teams

• Ensure security and compliance

o Follow secure coding practices and cloud security standards

o Apply least-privilege access, secrets management, and data protection controls

• Mentor and guide team members

o Share technical knowledge and support junior and mid-level engineers

o Help raise the overall engineering quality of the team

• Non-functional Requirements:

Ensure all developed software meets non-functional requirements such as security, scalability, maintainability, performance, and compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards

Salary Range: $130,000 to $150,000 per year