AWS Technical Lead (Serverless & Microservices)

Quick Facts

• Role: AWS Technical Lead / Senior AWS Lead Developer
• Location: Dallas, TX

Description

Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native solutions on AWS. You will be hands-on with serverless, API development, event-driven architectures, messaging, containerized workloads, and AWS monitoring/security, while providing technical guidance through solution design, troubleshooting, and code reviews. TikTok Shop and social commerce integration experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native, event-driven solutions on AWS using services including API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, AppFlow, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch.
• Develop backend services and integrations using Java.
• Provide technical guidance, and conduct code/design reviews to ensure adherence to engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, and AWS infrastructure issues.
• Drive adoption of coding standards, architectural patterns, engineering best practices, and development processes.
• Lead technical design and solutioning discussions to select appropriate technologies and architectural approaches for business requirements and operational efficiency.
• Stay hands-on with development, debugging, performance optimization, automation, and production issue resolution.
• Lead peer code and design reviews focused on security, performance, maintainability, and architectural principles.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, product stakeholders, and dependent teams to define solutions, manage dependencies, and drive end-to-end delivery.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction to enable knowledge sharing and consistent best practices.
• Own technical decision-making by identifying risks, dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities and driving resolution.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience (preferably digital/commerce solutions).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and implementing solutions on AWS.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, microservices, and third-party integrations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with serverless and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience working with digital commerce, e-commerce, customer experience, or omnichannel solutions.
• Prior experience or exposure to TikTok Shop or comparable social commerce integrations (strongly preferred).
• Good understanding of AWS security (IAM), networking, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.