Lead Software Engineer

1 day ago


Hyderabad, Telangana, India Principal Global Services Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 24,00,000 per year
Responsibilities

Role Overview

We're looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java & UI) to design and deliver end‑to‑end platforms with Java as primary and modern UI as secondary. Focus areas include technical delivery, mentorship, quality, performance, and effective stakeholder communication.

Key Responsibilities

  • Full‑Stack Architecture: Define clean boundaries between Java microservices (API‑first) and front‑ends, standardize API contracts and BFF patterns (Java-first).
  • Build & Delivery: Implement domain services and REST APIs in Java, contribute to critical UI workflows and component libraries when needed.
  • Quality & Testing: Apply test pyramids across tiers—JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers (BE), Jest/RTL/Playwright (FE), enforce API/UI contract tests.
  • Performance & Security: JVM/DB tuning, caching, resilience, optimize Core Web Vitals and SSR/SSG/ISR, apply OAuth2/JWT, CSP.
  • Observability: Logs/metrics/traces across BE & FE and error tracking, dashboards and alerting for release health.
  • Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers, promote reuse (shared libs/components), communicate risks/trade-offs and align on scope with Product/UX/Architecture.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity.
  • Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensure Definition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accurate story point estimation.
Qualifications

Must‑Have Skills

Java (Primary)

  • Java / Java 8+: OOP & SOLID, Streams, Optional, functional interfaces, lambda expressions.
  • Concurrency: Thread pools, Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks, concurrent collections, Java Memory Model, heap/stack, GC.
  • Web & API: RESTful design, rate limiting, API gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, WebLogic/WebSphere familiarity (or embedded servers).
  • Spring: Spring Core (IoC/DI), Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Batch, Spring AOP.
  • Architecture & Patterns: Event‑driven design (MQ/queuing), patterns—Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template.
  • Data/Testing/Tooling: SQL & query tuning, Redis, JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers, Maven/Gradle, Git, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry.

UI (Secondary – 20–30%)

  • React + TypeScript +  Component-driven development, hooks, state (Redux/RTK/Zustand), SSR/SSG/ISR, routing, image optimization.
  • Performance & Accessibility: Core Web Vitals, code splitting, caching/CDN, WCAG 2.1 accessibility practices.
  • Security & Testing: CSP, sanitization, XSS/CSRF protections, Jest, RTL, Playwright/Cypress.
  • Integration: Robust consumption of Java APIs, auth flows (OAuth/OIDC, JWT), error handling and retry UX.

Good to Have

  • Design systems (Storybook, tokens/theming), monorepos (Nx/Turborepo).
  • Messaging/eventing (Kafka), BFF-in-Java standards, API versioning strategies.
  • Containers (Docker) and orchestration basics (Kubernetes/ECS).

Soft Skills

  • Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and bias for action.
  • Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones.
  • Mentors teammates, provides clear, constructive feedback.
  • Demonstrates ownership, raises the bar, and consistently exceeds day-to-day expectations.

Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drives clarity and resolution with stakeholders.



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