Lead Software Engineer

What You'll Do

HTS is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong expertise in AWS, Liferay DXP, Elastic Search, and AI tools who can both lead and contribute hands-on.

In this role, you will guide a small team of developers, collaborate with vendors, and drive end-to-end delivery of enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate combines technical depth with leadership skills — ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.

Technical Leadership


* Lead a team of 23 developers, providing mentorship, code reviews, and technical guidance.


* Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of projects.


* Define and enforce best practices for coding, security, and application performance.


* Partner with product owners to build application architecture and drive development efforts.

Responsibilities


* Develop and maintain Liferay DXP 7.4 modules, portlets, OSGi services, and custom APIs.


* Implement front-end client extensions (Remote Apps), themes, fragments, style books, master pages consistent with Liferay DXP 7.4 best practices.


* Build headless services using REST / GraphQL APIs for multi-channel content delivery.


* Work with content management features: asset libraries, metadata, display page templates, content collections, filters, pagination, etc.


* Participate in upgrades / migrations to 7.4: assess compatibility, manage database / schema changes, resolve structure / field conflicts, ensure minimal disruption.


* Optimize performance and scalability: caching strategies, search (Enterprise Search / Search Blueprints), deployment in cloud / containerized environments.


* Design and implement enterprise applications leveraging AWS cloud services, Elastic Search, and Liferay DXP.


* Contribute hands-on in Java, Python, and serverless AWS frameworks (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).


* Drive CI/CD automation.


* Develop and optimize databases (Oracle, MySQL) and secure data models.


* Build web services and APIs to integrate with external systems.


* Champion DevOps best practices for continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated testing using CloudFormation, AWS Code Pipeline and Code Build.


* Ensure code quality, performance, and maintainability through code reviews and best practices.


* Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design, architecture diagrams, and API documentation.


* Support existing applications, reviews application architecture/design and identify opportunities to optimize (Performance, Security, Maintenance, etc.)

Skills:


* 810 years of experience in software engineering with at least 2+ years in a lead role.


* Strong expertise in AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, Code Pipeline, Code Build).


* Strong hands-on experience with Liferay DXP 7.4 in enterprise projects (preferably at least 1-2 full release c...