Lead Java Software Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features.
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Mentors junior developers.
• Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
• Led development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams.
• Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
• Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
• Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required.
• 10+ years experience of designing and developing software applications in Java or at least 5 years experience in Java with Master's degree.
• Eight years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java or at least five years of experience in Java with Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Developing software applications using relational and Nosql databases.
• Knowledge of application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs.
• Knowledge of datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
• Knowledge of other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, KMS, etc.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints.
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
• Technical Skills: Strong Java 17+Backend development is a MUSTSpringBoot frameworkMessage streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ApacheActiveMQRESTful web servicesAWS knowledge - IAM, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API stack, SQS, SNS, KMSAPI tools such as Swagger, Postman and AssertibleSlick - SQL queriesDevOps, CI/CD, JenkinsHigh Availability and Reliable SolutionsSome architecture experience