Lead Full Stack Engineer (Java, React)

About customer

Our customer. is a leading broad‑line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan, and the United Kingdom. They Keep the World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. The Company recorded 2024 revenue of $17.2 billion across its two business models.

Position Overview

Customer’s Developer Experience (DevEx) initiative treats developer productivity as a product. We integrate sensible defaults, unified tooling, and community‑driven best practices to enable engineers to ship business value quickly and safely. As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer on the Engineering Effectiveness organization, you will design, build, and evangelize platforms and workflows that decrease lead‑time, boost reliability, and maximize developer joy across hundreds of product teams.

What You’ll Do

• Own critical slices of the DevEx roadmap: developer onboarding, platform onboarding, and paved‑path templates that get new workloads to production in minutes, not weeks.


• Design and iterate on **service‑catalog powered starter kits** (Java API, micro‑frontend, event‑driven apps) backed by CI/CD pipelines and paved‑path infrastructure‑as‑code modules.


• Instrument and improve quantitative metrics such as "Mean Time to First Commit, Mean Time to 10th Commit", and "First Production Deployment" while also capturing qualitative signals like the *Developer Joy Index*.


• Embed with product teams through ride‑along, value‑stream mapping, consultations, and dojo sessions** to surface friction, co‑create solutions, influence roadmaps, and harden sensible defaults.


• Champion DevEx first principles —customer‑first mindset, insight‑driven decisions, limited optionality, and making "the right way the easy way"—across architecture reviews and community forums.


• Partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security, and the DevEx Advisory Group to ensure alignment on governance, automation, and support models.


• Lead inner‑source contributions and knowledge sharing in the DevEx Advisory Group; publish docs, demos, and RFCs to scale best practices.


• Continuously evaluate emerging tools (e.g., Backstage Service Catalog, GenAI, CI/CD pipelines, etc.) and drive data‑backed adoption decisions.

What You’ll Bring

• 8‑12 years of professional software‑engineering experience with increasing scope and impact.


• A passion for improving developer experience; allowing developers to reach their maximum potential by giving them tools to stay in a flow state by removing obstacles.


• Hands‑on expertise building "internal developer platforms" or large‑scale CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions (or equivalents).


• Demonstrated success measuring and moving developer‑productivity metrics, using data visualization/analytics to guide prioritization.


• Strong coding proficiency in Java plus JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js); ability to dive into infrastructure code (Helm, Kustomize, CDK, Argo).


• Experience designing opinionated software templates that embed security, observability, testing, and automated governance by default.


• Passion for product thinking and customer empathy —you seek feedback early and often and iterate rapidly.


• Excellent facilitation, mentoring, and communication skills; thrive in cross‑functional, highly collaborative environments.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field—or equivalent practical experience.

Tech Stack & Tooling You’ll Touch

• Internal Developer Portal (IDP):  Backstage (or similar), GitHub Actions


• IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, ArgoCD


• Languages & Frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Shell


• Cloud & Containers: AWS (EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS), Docker, Kubernetes


• Observability & Governance: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Splunk,


• AI‑Assisted Dev Tools: GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Chat‑based workflow integrations


• Testing & Quality: JUnit, Jest, Cypress, SonarQube, DevContainers