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Akiak Technology is seeking aSenior Full Stack Developer / Technical Solution Architectto support a mission-critical federal program. This is primarily ahands-on software engineering rolewith responsibility for practical solution architecture. The ideal candidate brings deepJava/Spring Bootexpertise, working knowledge ofReact/TypeScript, and strong experience acrossAWS, EKS/Kubernetes, data architecture, andDevSecOps. 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 usingJava, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, 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 forquality, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

• Build backend services usingSpring 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 fromDynamoDB/NoSQL to PostgreSQL, including schema design, data mapping, indexing, SQL performance, and persistence changes.

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

• Produce lightweight, implementation-focused architecture artifacts such as solution designs, data models, interface specifications, deployment views, andArchitecture 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 withDevSecOpsteams to strengthenCI/CD automation, security, environment consistency, deployment reliability, and rollback capabilities.

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

• Support infrastructure-as-code and repeatable environment provisioning usingTerraform.

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

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

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

• WorkingproficiencywithReact and TypeScript, including front-end/backend integration.

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

• Experience withDynamoDB or comparable NoSQL technologies; DynamoDB-to-PostgreSQL migration experience is highly desirable.

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

• StrongCI/CD andDevSecOpsexperience, including GitHub 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 andmaintainrequiredPublic 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-onHarnessexperience, particularly CI/CD migration from GitHub Actions or another platform.

• Direct production experience migratingDynamoDB/NoSQL to PostgreSQL.

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

• Experience withFedRAMP 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 policy for all employees and is dependent upon the type of position.This position may be assigned to support a federal contract, or to work in office. The Company’s teleworking eligibility may not apply if the employee is supporting a federal services contract. In this instance, the employee may be subject to federal telework policies and may be required to work onsite in the federal facility when requested.

The employee must sign and attest to the Company’s non-disclosure statement. The employee is responsible for reporting to the Company’s Compliance, Risk and Ethics Officer any conflicts of interest, and/or provide notification of outside employment, or when release of confidential business isshared with external parties.

The Akiak Family of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and administers its employment practices in compliance with federal law, including implementation of the Tribal Preference policy to the extent permitted. All aspects of employment will be governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability or any other basis prohibited by law.

Because this position supports a federal contract that restricts performance to U.S. citizens, you will be required to provideproof of U.S. citizenship(e.g., a U.S. passport or passport card; a U.S. birth certificate with a government-issued photo ID; or a Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship).This request issolelyto confirmcontract eligibilityand isseparate from Form I-9. For the I-9, you may presentanyacceptable document(s) of your choosing; we do notrequest or require specific I-9 documents. We will completeEVerify- within 3 business days of your start datein accordance with federal requirements.