Position: Director, Software Engineering (Java 8, Kafka, AWS)
Overview
Director, Software Engineering (Java 8, Kafka, AWS)
Prestigious company seeking a Director, Software Engineering to lead a team focused on building event-driven solutions. Requires experience with Java 8, AWS, Kafka, multi-threading, and related technologies. (
Note:
Sponsorship is not available for this permanent full-time role.)
Location & Work Arrangement: Arlington Heights, IL — Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
Recruiter: Senior Executive Recruiter at Request Technology
Responsibilities
• Build and manage a team of skilled software developers.
• Collaborate with others to deliver complex projects across multiple systems.
• Manage a distributed development team, coordinate with vendors, and drive delivery.
• Develop solutions to complex technical challenges, including coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documentation.
• Lead efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, refactoring, and system tuning.
• Recommend architectural changes and new technologies/tools to improve efficiency and quality of systems and processes.
Qualifications
• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field; MS preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience in building large-scale, compute and event-driven solutions;
Java 8+ experience.
• 8+ years of experience with Object Oriented Design, advanced patterns, and multi-threading.
• Experience with distributed message brokers (e.g., Kafka, Amazon Kinesis).
• Working knowledge of Dev Ops tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations; AWS foundational services (VPC, Security Groups, EC2, RDS, S3, KMS, IAM, etc.).
• Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Citrus desirable).
• Experience with relational, No
SQL, object-based, and graph databases.
• Git workflows experience required.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, App Dynamics) is a plus.
Employment Details
• Employment type:
Full-time
• Job function:
Information Technology
• Seniority level:
Director
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Note:
This job posting contains generic role and salary examples and is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities.
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