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 2–3 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:

• 8–10 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 least1-2 full release cycles).

• Experience with headless development: REST APIs, GraphQL in Liferay context.

• Hands-on proficiency in Java and Python development.

• Elastic Search configuration for scalable search capabilities.

• Experience implementing and integrating AI tools in enterprise applications.

• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.

• Experience with modern version control systems (GitHub)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in an agile development environment.

• Demonstrated self-motivation, leadership, and driving capabilities.

• Motivated, self-starter, independent, results oriented and professional.

• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Service Now)

• Continuous learner with a growth mindset