Java Engineer - AWS ECS

Java Engineer (Java 17/21) AWS ECS

About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced Java Engineer with deep expertise in Java 17/21, Spring Boot microservices, and AWS ECS-based cloud deployment. The ideal candidate will design and build high-performance backend services, implement scalable APIs, and manage containerized workloads in a cloud-native architecture.

Key Responsibilities :

- Develop and optimize microservices using Java 17/21, Spring Boot, and modern JVM features.

- Implement clean, modular, maintainable code following SOLID principles and enterprise design patterns.

- Build and enhance RESTful APIs with strong focus on performance, scalability, and security.

- Integrate backend services with internal systems, external APIs, and messaging components.

- Design, build, and deploy containerized applications on AWS ECS (Fargate or EC2 launch types).

- Utilize key AWS services including ECR, IAM, VPC, S3, ALB, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager for end-to-end cloud operations.

- Configure scalable infrastructure patterns including auto-scaling, service discovery, load balancing, and health checks.

- Participate in designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and container-native backend solutions.

- Conduct performance tuning, JVM optimization, memory profiling, and load testing.

- Assist in defining SLAs, monitoring KPIs, reliability standards, and production support best practices.

- Work closely with DevOps, QA, product managers, and architectural teams to deliver robust backend services.

- Participate in peer reviews, contribute to engineering best practices, and mentor junior developers when required.

Mandatory Skills & Expertise :

- Minimum 4 years of hands-on backend development experience.

- Strong proficiency in Java 17/21, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.

- Solid experience with REST API development, distributed systems, and backend performance tuning.

- Hands-on expertise in AWS ECS, Docker, and containerized application deployments.

- Working knowledge of AWS components such as ECR, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.

- Strong debugging, optimization, and problem-solving capabilities.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment.