Software Developer III - Java/Backend.

Summit Tech Partners•United States•🌍 Remote

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👁️ 0 views•📝 0 applications•Posted 10/17/2026•Expires 12/16/2026

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Job Description

Tech Lead Software Engineer (Java Backend) Remote (U. S.) | Full-Time | Contract We're partnering with a well-established enterprise organization seeking a Tech Lead Software Engineer to help drive modernization initiatives, cloud transformation, and AI-enabled engineering practices across critical business platforms.

This is a fully remote, long-term contract opportunity with occasional quarterly travel for team collaboration. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, mentoring developers, and building highly scalable backend systems in AWS.

What You'll Be Doing As a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership while remaining actively involved in architecture, development, and delivery. Key responsibilities include: Lead the design and development of scalable backend services using Java and cloud-native technologies.

Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to engineering teams. Help modernize legacy applications and migrate services from on-premises environments to AWS. Design and implement event-driven architectures and distributed systems.

Partner with Product, Platform, and Engineering teams to align technical solutions with business objectives. Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production and architecture challenges. Drive engineering best practices across coding standards, design reviews, testing, and operational excellence.

Champion "build it, run it" ownership and production reliability. Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices to improve engineering productivity and quality. Mentor engineers and help elevate overall team capabilities. Required Experience 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Prior experience serving as a Technical Lead, Lead Engineer, or Senior Individual Contributor. Strong Java backend development experience in enterprise environments. Hands-on AWS experience, including compute, messaging

Required Skills

JavaAWSCloud-native technologiesEvent-driven architecturesDistributed systemsCoding standardsDesign reviewsTestingOperational excellenceAI-assisted developmentAgentic developmentMentoring

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