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AWS Technical Lead/Sr. Java/Angular Developer

General Dynamics Information TechnologyLast week

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Remote — United States onlyUnited States
Salary
USD 132k-178k / year
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
DevOps & SysadminFull Stack

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Job description

Type of Requisition

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain

None

Public Trust/Other Required

Other

Job Family

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Angular UI, Java (Programming Language), Spring Boot, Technical Leadership

Certifications

None

Experience

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required

Yes

Job Description

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SR PRINCIPAL


  • EAST COAST HOURS*
    **MUST HAVE CURRENT AWS CERTIFICATION**

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring a strong software engineering background, broad AWS cloud expertise, and the ability to lead and mentor developers.


Duties

  • Lead and mentor a small, distributed Agile development team while remaining hands-on with architecture, design, development, code reviews, and troubleshooting.
  • Serve as a key technical point of contact between the development team, program leadership, and customer.
  • Translate customer and user requirements into technical specifications, architectural approaches, and implementation plans.
  • Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, REST APIs, and relational databases.
  • Provide technical leadership for applications deployed in AWS, including architecture, containers, networking, security, databases, observability, scalability, and resiliency.
  • Build, deploy, and troubleshoot containerized applications using Docker and Amazon ECS.
  • Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Design and maintain relational data solutions using PostgreSQL and/or Oracle and persistence frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA and MyBatis.
  • Apply modern application patterns including micro-services, asynchronous processing, caching, automated testing, and secure software development.
  • Support application observability and production troubleshooting using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
  • Promote software engineering best practices and identify opportunities to improve application performance, security, maintainability, and architecture.
  • Support team workload/capacity planning, technical mentoring, performance feedback, and professional development.

Required Experience and Technical Skills

  • MUST HAVE AWS Certified Developer - Associate, Solutions Architect - Associate, or higher-level AWS certification.
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, including experience developing enterprise applications in Agile environments.
  • 2+ years of technical leadership experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Software Architect, or equivalent.
  • Strong hands-on Java and Spring/Spring Boot development experience; Java 21 or recent Java LTS versions preferred.
  • Experience developing modern web applications using Angular/TypeScript; Angular 17+ preferred.
  • Experience designing and developing REST APIs and micro-service-based applications.
  • 4+ years of hands-on AWS experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production workloads.
  • Strong understanding of AWS architecture and core services, including ECS/ECR, VPC/networking, IAM, load balancing, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Secrets Management.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, scalability, resiliency, high availability, and observability.
  • Experience with Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and/or Oracle, SQL, and Java persistence technologies such as Hibernate/JPA or MyBatis.
  • Experience with automated testing, code quality, security scanning, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Experience with application monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

Leadership Skills and Abilities

  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a geographically distributed, 100% remote development team.
  • Ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with technical and people leadership.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills across application, container, database, networking, and AWS infrastructure layers.
  • Ability to translate business and user requirements into effective technical solutions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with customers and technical/non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with people-management or team-lead responsibilities including mentoring, performance feedback, workload/capacity management, and professional development.
  • Ability to prioritize work, identify technical risks, and drive engineering best practices.

Preferred Skills

  • GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runner experience.

· Linux and shell scripting.

  • JUnit, SonarQube, Playwright, Karma, or comparable testing/code-quality tools.
  • Experience with enterprise authentication/SSO or DSSO.
  • Section 508 accessibility experience.
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications.
  • Familiarity with additional AWS services and event-driven/server-less architectures.

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL

Public Trust


LOCATION

100% remote - East Coast Hours


US Citizenship or Green Card Required with 2 years of continuous residency in the US (no sponsorship available)

The likely salary range for this position is $131,750 - $178,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Travel Required

None

Telecommuting Options

Remote

Work Location

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations

Total Rewards at GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

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