Remote Java Full-Stack Technical Lead

Job Description

We are seeking a Lead Java Full-Stack Developer to lead the hands-on modernization of a large-scale enterprise application. This individual will provide technical leadership while remaining highly involved in development, architecture, stack upgrades, integrations, security remediation, and production delivery. The ideal candidate is a strong Java/Spring Boot engineer with modern front-end experience who can own technical decisions, solve complex problems, mentor developers, and collaborate across business and technology teams. Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, design reviews, and engineering best practices within an Agile development team.
• Design, develop, and modernize applications using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and REST APIs.
• Build and support backend services, microservices, business logic, and enterprise integrations.
• Lead application and technology-stack upgrades while ensuring system stability and production readiness.
• Validate and troubleshoot integrations across DB2, MQ, FTP/email, identity services, secrets management, and container platforms.
• Drive secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, automated testing, TDD, peer code reviews, and CI/CD.
• Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues and help drive them through resolution.
• Coordinate deployments and releases while proactively identifying and managing technical risks.
• Mentor engineers and help establish consistent development standards across the team.
• Partner closely with product, business, security, infrastructure, database, mainframe, and platform teams to deliver key priorities.

Skills and Requirements

• 7+ years of enterprise Java development experience, including Spring Boot and/or Spring MVC.
• 3+ years of experience developing REST APIs, microservices, backend services, and enterprise integrations.
• Full-stack development experience with Angular
• Strong experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience working with cloud environments and container platforms such as OpenShift and/or Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and Test-Driven Development
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0/OIDC, Spring Security, secrets management, messaging, and secure engineering practices.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on with development.
• Experience independently owning technical deliverables from design through production.
• Experience with DB2 and MQ.
• Strong mentoring, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience within healthcare, enrollment, eligibility, or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
• Experience modernizing legacy Java applications.
• Familiarity with application monitoring and SRE/DevOps practices.
• Experience working with or leveraging generative AI development tools.
• Experience operating within SOX, HIPAA, or similar security, compliance, and audit controls.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].