Lead Java Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

About the role:

As a Lead Java Full Stack Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

- Write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC using high coding standards and software best practices
- Develop products and deliver features and updates according to the product roadmap
- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/updates to specifications for the solution
- Drive activities daily meetings, planning, retrospectives, etc
- Set engineering standards in the team and help other team members adopt them
- Line manager responsibilities team's professional and career development
- Be open to adopting new technologies and approaches on projects as they evolve, especially those relating to GenAI advancements
- Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge development
- Assists the team in daily work

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in software development required proficiency in Java 8 or higher
- Experience building Enterprise-grade applications Java and Microservices (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring/ Spring boot)
- Strong experience in Java Spring boot, Core Java, API, Microservices, Angular, and React JS
- Strong database experience in PL/SQL, PostgreSQL
- Experience of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control
- Strong experience building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL, PL/SQL
- Experience in Java Spring security JWT, CSRF, Method based security, RBAC
- Experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA
- Experience and knowledge of Java Multithreading
- Experience in implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability,automation, virtualization, optimization, availability, and performance
- Experience and understanding of design patterns for microservices development
- Experience working on high-throughput microservices by leveraging concurrency, supporting multithreading, event-based processing, or developing services to manage high data volumes
- Experience in Test-Driven development
- Strong SQL skills to work on Relational databases
- Strong experience in SDLC, DevOps processes CI/CD tools, Git, etc
- Good Understanding of Messaging frameworks like IBM MQ and Kafka
- Knowledge of Scrum and XP methodologies and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
- Experience using GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs

Software Design:

- Solid background in designing and developing solutions using best practices and patterns
- Experience with monolithic, microservices, and event-driven architectural styles on commercial projects

Quality Assurance:

- Proven experience in driving quality improvements for design and implementation decisions within a team

Software Deployment:

- Hands-on experience with software deployment and configuration in the Cloud (pipelines, deployment patterns) and Container Orchestrators (k8s, Docker Swarm)

Leadership:

- Lead development team
- Lead and improve the decision-making process in design solution architecture, solution development, architecture and code review

Personal skills:

- Communication is a key. You speak and write in English fluently or at least at an upper-intermediate level

Accountability:

- Following the said and done principle
- Accountability for the scope of the team's work

Drive:

- Proactive in efforts to deliver results according to the expectations
- Suggesting new ideas, looking for alternative solutions

Selfdevelopment:

- Eager to learn and grow: curios, keen to constant self-development
- Constantly improving own mastership

Effective communication:

- Ability to express ideas, thoughts, and questions simply, concisely, and in a structured way
- Creating an open feedback culture
- Clear communication of risks and consequences

Team management:

- Effective teamwork organization

Process improvement:

- Skilled in technical risk mitigation
- Orchestrating the delivery process improvements with the feedback-driven approach

People Development:

- Taking active steps toward the team's professional skills improvement