JAVA API

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Technical Lead with 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a leadership capacity. The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in modern backend technologies and a proven ability to guide both onshore and offshore development teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems, ensuring adherence to high and low-level design principles.
• Lead database architecture and optimization efforts, with a focus on performance and data integrity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement integration solutions, ensuring seamless data flow across systems.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to enhance system reliability, performance, and availability.
• Utilize container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift to streamline deployment and orchestration of applications.
• Leverage Spring Boot to develop microservices and backend applications, applying best practices and design patterns.
• Design and implement RESTful and GraphQL APIs, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests.
• Guide the creation of responsive and intuitive user interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks, with a focus on React.
• Write unit and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, or PowerMock, and ensure adherence to quality and security standards using tools like Sonar, Fortify, and WebInspect.
• Produce comprehensive documentation for each microservice, detailing architecture, design decisions, and implementation guidelines.
• Participate in Agile development processes, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Proactively identify and resolve bugs and performance issues in a timely manner.
• Engage in database design and optimization for integration systems, ensuring efficient data management and retrieval.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Java development, with a strong focus on Spring Boot and backend architecture.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a Technical Lead role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Java 17/21, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Experience with Kafka/event-driven architecture and SQL Server/Oracle databases.
• Expertise in distributed system design and experience designing/reviewing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, performance tuning, and production support.
• Experience leading offshore/onshore development teams.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing complex system integrations.
• Strong background in test-driven development and automated testing frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures, preferably with relevant certification (AWS).
• Hands-on coding skills; candidates must clear a coding test.

Skills

• Java 17/21
• Spring Boot
• REST APIs & Microservices
• Kafka/Event-driven architecture
• SQL Server / Oracle databases
• GraphQL APIs
• GitLab CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• Distributed system design
• Docker, OpenShift
• JUnit, Mockito, PowerMock
• Sonar, Fortify, WebInspect
• React (for UI guidance)

Pay

$100,000 - $110,000 a year