Lead Backend Java Software Engineer (AWS)
Company: Diversified Services Network
Location: Chicago, IL 60661
Salary: $140,000 - $165,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-29
About this role
Lead Software Engineer
*Java/Kotlin | AWS Cloud-Native Systems | Technical Leadership*
Full-Time | Hybrid (3 Days On-Site) | 10+ Years Experience
Diversified Services Network, Inc. (DSN) is seeking a full-time Lead Software Engineer to join our team in Chicago, IL! We offer full benefits, PTO, 401k, and more! This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week on-site. If you are a senior engineer ready to provide deep technical leadership for cloud-native Java systems on AWS within an extremely reputable, stable Fortune 500 company — let’s talk!
Position Overview
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide deep technical leadership for the design and implementation of Java-based, cloud-native systems on AWS, in a hybrid role based in Chicago, IL. You will define service architecture, data flows, and integration patterns that meet strict scalability, availability, and security requirements, driving architectural decisions across microservices, event-driven, and asynchronous processing patterns with clear service ownership and well-defined contracts.
You will lead development of core backend services using modern Java frameworks and AWS-native patterns — including RESTful and event-based APIs, message-driven processing, and distributed data management. You will guide adoption of AWS services such as managed compute, messaging, storage, and databases, define standards for infrastructure as code, resiliency, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation, and establish best practices for CI/CD automation, observability, logging, metrics, and tracing. By proactively identifying architectural bottlenecks, scalability constraints, and technical debt, you will directly improve system performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability while enabling the work group to scale features and throughput efficiently.
Key Contributions & Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services, cloud-native components, and core platform functionality (approxim...