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We are looking for an experienced IT Software Engineer 5/ Technical Lead to design, develop, and support scalable enterprise applications in a cloud-native environment.
This is a 12-month contract opportunity | 100% Remote | Chicago, IL preferred
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
Develop backend services using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices.
Design and implement cloud-native solutions using AWS.
Work with AWS services including ECS/Fargate, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, and observability.
Design distributed and event-driven systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and performance.
Work with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and relational/NoSQL databases.
Troubleshoot production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive performance and reliability improvements.
Provide technical guidance through architecture discussions, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering best practices.
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver enterprise solutions.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools where appropriate while maintaining strong engineering, security, and quality standards.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years in a technical lead, senior engineering, or architecture-focused capacity
Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot
Proven experience developing microservices and distributed systems
Strong hands-on AWS/cloud-native experience
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
Strong understanding of APIs, databases, event-driven architecture, and application performance
Experience with production support, observability, and incident management
Strong communication, technical decision-making, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Preferred
Chicago-area candidates
Experience with enterprise-scale cloud modernization
Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools
Stable employment history and demonstrated long-term ownership of enterprise applications
Willingness to travel occasionally as needed
Work Arrangement: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 months
Interview: One virtual panel
Pay rate- $70/hour
Kindly forward your resume to vumakulkarni@wordwizard.co.in
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