Enterprise Email SME
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Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Email SME, SES. DNS, Java Development
Remote
Supporting MST or CST Time Zones
Top 5 Technical Skills:
- AWS architecture and development
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
- Enterprise Email SME — deliverability, DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and sender reputation
- Lead-level Java / Spring Boot development
- Strong experience presenting technical details to Stakeholders
Top 3 Soft Skills:
- Strong technical leadership
- Takes ownership and responsibility for the solution and drives work to completion
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Lead Developer – Enterprise Email Platform / AWS SES
Position Summary
We are seeking a Lead Developer / Email Platform SME to lead the design and development of a new enterprise-scale email and messaging platform built primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
This individual will serve as the technical lead for the solution and must bring deep, hands-on expertise with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), enterprise email delivery, sender reputation management, DNS/email authentication, and high-volume transactional communications.
This is not simply an application development position. The successful candidate must understand the complete email delivery lifecycle—from application-generated communication requests through domain authentication, routing, delivery, bounce/complaint handling, reputation monitoring, and operational support.
The platform will use AWS SES with supporting application services developed primarily in Java and Spring Boot.
The Lead Developer will be expected to take ownership of the solution, provide technical direction to other developers, work directly with architects and business stakeholders, and remain hands-on throughout design and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and development of an enterprise email and messaging platform using AWS SES and related AWS services.
- Serve as the project's Email Subject Matter Expert, establishing enterprise email architecture, standards, and best practices.
- Design and implement highly scalable services for generating, processing, routing, and delivering transactional and enrollment-related email communications.
- Lead the implementation and configuration of Amazon SES, including:
- Verified domains and sending identities
- Configuration sets
- Dedicated IP strategy where applicable
- Sending pools and traffic segmentation
- Bounce and complaint processing
- Suppression management
- Delivery event tracking
- Reputation monitoring
- Sending quotas and production readiness
- Own the email domain authentication strategy, including:
- SPF
- DKIM
- DMARC
- DNS configuration and validation
- Return-Path / MAIL FROM configuration
- Domain alignment
- Sender authentication and deliverability
- Establish and maintain strong email sender reputation and deliverability across major mailbox providers.
- Design mechanisms for identifying and responding to hard bounces, soft bounces, complaints, suppression events, and delivery failures.
- Develop Java/Spring Boot services and APIs supporting email generation, communication requests, processing, routing, and delivery.
- Design and implement integration between application components and AWS messaging services.
- Support both individual and batch communication processing for high-volume enterprise workloads.
- Develop reusable communication services supporting templates, variables, merge fields, business rules, brandi