Senior Full Stack Developer​/Technical Solution Architect

Role Summary

Akiak Technology is seeking aSenior Full Stack Developer / Technical Solution Architect to support a mission-critical federal program. This is primarily ahands-on software engineering rolewith responsibility for practical solution architecture. The ideal candidate brings deep

Java/Spring Bootexpertise, working knowledge of React/Type Script, and strong experience acrossAWS, EKS/Kubernetes, data architecture, andDev Sec Ops . This individual must be comfortable working directly in the codebase - designing and reviewing code, troubleshooting production issues, evaluating pipelines and infrastructure, and translating architecture decisions into working solutions.

• Design, develop, review, troubleshoot, and enhance applications using
  
  Java, Spring Boot, React, Type Script, REST APIs, and microservices.

• Serve as a senior hands-on technical contributor across coding, debugging, testing, code reviews, design decisions, and production support.

• Review code for quality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Build backend services using
  
  Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, and PostgreSQL.

• Troubleshoot front-end/backend integration, API contracts, authentication/authorization, and end-to-end application issues.

• Partner with product owners and engineers to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.

• Provide hands-on architecture leadership acrossapplication modernization, microservices, APIs, integrations, data, and deployment.

• Support modernization ofRuby/Ruby on Rails applications to Java/Spring Boot, including legacy-code assessment, service redesign, API migration, and phased implementation.

• Lead data architecture and engineering decisions supporting migration from
  
  DynamoDB/No
  
  SQL to PostgreSQL, including schema design, data mapping, indexing, SQL performance, and persistence changes.

• Define practical API, integration, and Java persistence patterns using
  
  Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate.

• Produce lightweight, implementation-focused architecture artifacts such as solution designs, data models, interface specifications, deployment views, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

• Validate architecture decisions throughcode, prototypes, technical reviews, and testing.

• Design and troubleshoot cloud-native solutions usingAWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, IAM, networking, and observability tools.

• Review and troubleshoot Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Terraform modules, containers, and EKS deployments.

• Partner with
  
  Dev Sec Opsteams  to strengthenCI/CD automation, security, environment consistency, deployment reliability, and rollback capabilities.

• Support migration from
  
  GitHub Actions to Harness, improving build, test, security scanning, approvals, artifact promotion, deployment, observability, and rollback processes.

• Support infrastructure-as-code and repeatable environment provisioning using
  
  Terraform.

• 10+ yearsof progressive software engineering experience with substantial recent hands-on development responsibility.

• Expert-level
  
  Java and Spring Bootexperience, including REST APIs, microservices, testing, debugging, performance tuning, and production support.

• Experience modernizing or migrating
  
  Ruby/Ruby on Rails applications to Java/Spring Boot.

• Workingproficiencywith React and Type Script, including front-end/backend integration.

• Strong experience with
  
  PostgreSQL, SQL, relational data modeling, Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate.

• Experience with
  
  DynamoDB or comparable No
  
  SQL technologies;
  DynamoDB-to-PostgreSQL migration experience is highly desirable.

• Strong hands-on experience withAWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform.

• StrongCI/CD andDev Sec Ops experience , including Git Hub Actions and secure software delivery practices.

• Ability to troubleshoot acrossapplication code, pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and AWS services.

• Understanding ofOAuth 2.0, OIDC, IAM, RBAC, and modern application security patterns.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to engineers, architects, product owners, and stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain andmaintainrequired
  
  Public Trust or contract-specific suitability.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Active DHS clearance/suitability.

• Hands-on Harnessexperience, particularly CI/CD migration from Git Hub Actions or another platform.

• Direct production experience migrating
  
  DynamoDB/No
  
  SQL to PostgreSQL.

• Experience supportingUSCIS, DHS, or other federal digital services programs.

• Experience with
  
  FedRAMP and federal security/compliance requirements.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate level as a minimum)

• Experience with observability, automated testing, performance engineering, and production reliability in Kubernetes/EKS environment

The company has a hybrid remote…