Java Technical Lead

Java Full Stack + React Lead Developer

As an Engineering Lead for the application delivery team, you will be responsible for leading a talented team of engineers (DEV&QA). You will demonstrate high technical acumen, solution design capability, and strong hands-on expertise in the development of technical solutions for complex business requirements. You will play leading role in providing the technical guidance to the team, best practices adoption, fostering collaborative & dynamic team built-up ensuring successful development and delivery of high-quality enterprise applications/systems.

Core Responsibilities (Team & Delivery Leadership):

Technical Acumen:

• Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with assignments. This includes gathering and understanding requirements, technical specifications, design, architecture, implementation, unit testing, builds/deployments, and code management.
• Evaluate, assess, plan, and guide technical direction and architecture decisions.

Leading Team:

• Mentor, guide the development team through the process of design, estimation, development, and unit testing.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure coding standards are maintained, lead the best practices adoption, and drive continuous improvement in development processes.
• Lead to inspire a team of engineers, fostering a positive and productive work culture.
• Be a self-starter and an excellent team player.
• Stay abreast with industry trends and technological advancements and apply this knowledge to guide the team in selecting appropriate technologies and methodologies.
• Provide technical guidance, support professional development, and conduct regular performance reviews in conjunction to the delivery managers.

Partnership:

• Interface, collaborate and communicate effectively with business and cross functional/technical partners.
• Active participation and contribution to PI, product & release planning etc.
• Collaborate with onsite and offsite team members effectively.

Core Skills:

• 10+ years in Java J2EE building web applications, spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• Java, JEE & spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• 8+ years of experience with related frameworks and technologies (Hibernate, Restful services Spring JDBC, MVC etc.)
• Strong experience with Microservices, Spring Boot / Spring framework, Rest API, JPA.
• 8+ years of experience in web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript including ES2016+
• Minimum 5+ years of experience of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux and Flux
• Experience with user interface design
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha and Jest
• Experience with browser based debugging and excellent troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge on system architecture (N-Tire, Microservices, Cloud-native).
• Strong knowledge of system design principles for scalable, high-performance, and extensible solutions for enterprise grade distributed and services systems.
• Significant knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Experience with Oracle Web logic, Tomcat to include installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
• Working experience of Spring Boot application configuration, deployment and troubleshooting on server platforms Oracle Web logic/Tomcat/Cloud.
• Experience with API management and Cloud-based platforms and services (AWS, Google).
• Working knowledge of Dev-Ops: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development practices as well as Automation and Unit Testing.
• Strong Analytical Skills.
• Working knowledge on system observability/monitoring and alerting.
• Experience Architecting and developing large scale Enterprise applications.
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development.
• Any experience in building applications for financial industry is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience (12+years) in Engineering role.
• 4+ Years experience as Engineering/Technical lead role.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex enterprise grade software solutions.