Senior AWS Java Full Stack Developer

Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, United States; hybrid work with onsite and remote work

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America.

What you will do

• Lead the development and support of cloud-based applications in an AWS-focused financial services environment.
• Make component-level technical decisions and build secure, scalable services.
• Improve application performance, reliability, availability, operational readiness, and cloud cost efficiency.
• Guide implementation teams and strengthen automated testing and delivery practices.
• Resolve complex issues across services, align implementations with enterprise standards, and mentor developers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of advanced Java experience, including collections, streams, exception handling, JVM concepts, multithreading, concurrency, and functional and reactive programming.
• Familiarity with Java 8, 17, and 21 features.
• Strong Spring Boot and microservices experience, including REST APIs, dependency injection, input validation, centralized exception handling, and Actuator.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Security, JWT authentication, JPA/Hibernate, and transaction management.
• Ability to define service boundaries and implement resilient, scalable services using circuit breakers, distributed transaction patterns, and production monitoring.
• Strong Angular skills covering component structure, services, RxJS, state management, routing, API integration, and UI performance optimization.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, IAM, ECS, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, and networking fundamentals.
• Experience implementing serverless and event-driven applications.
• Ability to lead component and service implementation, evaluate technical tradeoffs, document implementation decisions, and mentor other developers.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Kafka experience with producers, consumers, topics, consumer groups, event streaming, error handling, and performance tuning.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience, including container optimization, deployments, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps experience with build automation, CI/CD pipelines, and release practices.
• Knowledge of API integration standards, OpenAPI/Swagger, authentication, authorization, versioning, and API contracts.
• Playwright and LambdaTest experience with reusable UI automation, regression testing, cross-browser execution, and troubleshooting unreliable tests.
• GitHub Copilot or similar tools, including guidance on generated code review, test coverage, and security.
• Root cause analysis, stakeholder communication, Agile collaboration, and ownership of delivery risks.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time direct-hire employment.
• Hybrid work model combining onsite and remote work.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Additional benefits include spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, and participation in a 401(k) plan.