Java Backend Tech Lead

Job details
Position: Java Backend Tech Lead
Compensation: $75 - $83 /hour, depending on experience
Location: Fully Remote
Inceed has partnered with a great company to help find a skilled Java Backend Tech Lead to join their team!
This is a high-impact opportunity for a hands-on technical leader to help drive backend modernization on a major enterprise initiative. You'll guide architecture, influence technical direction, and help shape secure, scalable services as the team moves from legacy systems to cloud-native solutions. If you enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring others, and building with purpose, this role offers a strong mix of leadership, innovation, and delivery ownership.
Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Lead backend architecture and service-level technical decisions
• Modernize monolithic systems into microservices
• Design event-driven solutions with reliable messaging patterns
• Partner across teams to align technical direction
• Serve as a key escalation point for complex issues
• Support production services and incident remediation
• Establish quality standards, testing, and code review practices
• Guide cloud-native development in AWS and Kubernetes
• Mentor engineers through design and architecture discussions
• Help implement AI-assisted engineering workflows

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• 8-10+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Strong Java experience, with Java as primary language
• Technical leadership experience as a Tech Lead or senior IC
• Experience with Spring Boot, Spring Security, and Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience building microservices
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging patterns
• Experience supporting production systems and incident response
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with CI/CD and quality-focused development practices

Nice to Have Skills & Experience:

• OAuth experience
• Kafka experience
• MuleSoft experience
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Domain-driven design experience
• AI-assisted or agentic development experience
• Terraform or CDK experience
• Observability tool experience
• NoSQL database experience
• Experience in regulated environments

Perks & Benefits:

• 3 different medical health insurance plans, dental, and vision insurance
• Voluntary, Short-term and Long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off, 401k, and holiday pay
• Weekly direct deposit or pay card deposit

Other Information:

• Fully remote contract-to-hire opportunity
• Works on a major modernization initiative
• May support multiple enterprise projects
• Security and compliance are key priorities
• Up to 3-5 direct reports

If you are interested in learning more about the Java Backend Tech Lead opportunity, please submit your resume for consideration. Our client unable to provide sponsorship at this time.
We are Inceed, a staffing direct placement firm who believes in the possibility of something better. Our mission is simple: We're here to help every person, whether client, candidate, or employee, find and secure what's better for them.
Inceed is an equal opportunity employer. Inceed prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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