Lead Software Engineer (AWS & Terraform)

Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer, you are driving engineering excellence while designing, developing and operating scalable, high-quality solutions. You combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to shape Hilti's software engineering direction and cloud capabilities that form the backbone of Hilti's digital infrastructure. Beyond hands-on development, you inspire, mentor, and steer teams, foster collaboration across global stakeholders, and ensure alignment between long-term vision, engineering practices, and business outcomes.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or in similar fields - Master/PhD is a bonus (CGPA > 3.0 or similar grading is a must)
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a track record of ownership in cross-functional teams, excellent communication skills, and a strong focus on continuous learning, technical curiosity, mentoring and driving high-impact engineering outcomes.
• Deep expertise in modern Java (17+) including concurrency, multithreading, reactive programming, build tools (Gradle/Maven lifecycle), and design principles (SOLID), with experience in performance tuning, JVM optimization and troubleshooting.
• Proven hands-on experience with Spring Boot ecosystem (Security, WebFlux, Data/MyBatis), strong understanding of Spring internals (beans, AOP, request handling, serialization), and API design using REST and OpenAPI.
• Extensive experience designing and operating microservices on AWS using ECS, DynamoDB and Aurora, with solid knowledge of event-driven systems and services such as SQS, SNS, EventBus and Lambdas, combined with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Strong experience in modern testing approaches (e.g., RestAssured, TestContainers, WireMock, Localstack) and a solid understanding of cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence in enterprise environments.
• Excellent analytical capabilities, ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders, highly committed, self-driven, and customer oriented

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Commitment to Inclusion

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

Why Hilti

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we're driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you'll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you'll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.