Lead Engineer – AWS, Java, Microservices, TypeScript, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes
Experience - 8-12 Years
Roles and Responsibilities
- Demonstrable experience leading and building scalable microservices and event‑driven applications.
- Ability to solve complex technical challenges from design through to production.
- Address technical debt with a pragmatic and commercially focused approach.
- Translate requirements into high‑quality engineering deliverables.
- Deliver reusable, scalable solutions used across teams and products.
- Collaborate across teams and align technical decisions with business goals.
- Expertise in observability and reliability practices using tools such as:
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- Strong understanding of security best practices, including:
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Certificate lifecycle management
- Experience with testing methodologies such as TDD and BDD, and automation frameworks.
- Ability to design and implement data‑intensive, distributed architectures including APIs, microservices, event-driven designs, and serverless patterns.
- Knowledge of deployment strategies and SRE principles.
- Interest or experience in AI/ML technologies and emerging engineering tools.
Your Skills and Experience
Programming
- Java, TypeScript, JavaScript (Node.js)
- Spring Boot for building scalable, high‑performance services
Frameworks & Platforms
- Java
- React (TypeScript)
- Spring Boot / Spring EE for RESTful APIs and enterprise applications
Architecture
- Microservices
- Domain‑Driven Design (DDD)
- Event‑driven systems using RabbitMQ and/or Apache Kafka
Databases
- SQL Server
- PostgreSQL
- Other relational/NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB)
Cloud (AWS)
Hands-on experience with:
- EC2
- Lambda
- ECS/Fargate
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- CloudFormation
- CDK
- CodePipeline
- CodeBuild
- CloudWatch
CI/CD
- TeamCity
- Octopus Deploy
- GitHub & GitHub Actions
Containers
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
Quality Engineering
- Strong advocate for automated testing and quality-driven engineering practices
Frontend Capability (Highly Regarded)
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
(Sought-after for true full‑stack end-to-end delivery)
AI & Chatbot Integration (Desirable)
- Experience integrating AI-driven support tools using LLMs / ChatGPT
- Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar plugin patterns
- Useful for squads owning AI ChatBots for developer enablement
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
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