Technical Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Lead based in United States.

Take on a senior technical role developing and maintaining secure, enterprise-grade applications across the full software development lifecycle. You’ll combine full-stack engineering expertise with deep experience in Java, Oracle technologies, Linux environments, and DevSecOps practices. The role involves designing scalable solutions, improving application performance, and ensuring security is embedded throughout development and deployment. Working closely with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and integration teams, you’ll help deliver reliable applications for a federal government client. This opportunity is ideal for a seasoned technical professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, driving engineering quality, and supporting mission-critical systems.

Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack applications using modern front-end and back-end technologies.

• Build scalable, maintainable, and secure application components aligned with business and technical requirements.

• Develop responsive user interfaces and integrate them with backend services and databases.

• Troubleshoot application defects, resolve performance issues, and support production environments.

• Collaborate with system administrators on service configurations, file permissions, certificates, environment variables, and system logs.

• Diagnose Java application performance issues, memory utilization, exceptions, and deployment failures.

• Support application upgrades, patching, compatibility testing, and runtime security enhancements.

• Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Document application architecture, deployment processes, system configurations, API specifications, and troubleshooting procedures.

• Integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and coding through testing, deployment, and production support.

• Partner with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to implement security controls, audit requirements, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Coordinate with front-end developers, external system owners, and integration teams to ensure reliable API integration.

• Maintain API lifecycle documentation, including usage instructions, version updates, dependencies, and deprecation notices.

• Support releases, production incidents, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution.

• Recommend improvements to application reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and deployment automation.

Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, along with having lived in the U.S. for at least 3 of the past 5 years.

• Eligibility to obtain a federal government client badge and successfully pass a Public Trust background investigation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• At least 15 years of professional experience developing and supporting full-stack applications.

• Strong hands-on experience with Oracle Database design and maintenance.

• Experience developing Java applications using Amazon Corretto or another OpenJDK distribution, with the ability to support Amazon Corretto specifically.

• Experience deploying and maintaining applications on Apache Tomcat.

• Hands-on experience supporting applications in Oracle Enterprise Linux environments.

• Practical DevSecOps experience using Jenkins or similar tools to integrate automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with Git and collaborative source-control workflows.

• Knowledge of secure coding, application authentication and authorization, vulnerability management, and software dependency security.

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate across development, operations, and security teams.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of $140,000–$175,000.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Senior-level technical opportunity supporting enterprise and federal government applications.

• Opportunity to contribute to mission-impacting technology and complex engineering initiatives.

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