Job description

Provide creative leadership and technical expertise with hands on coding, to guide the development and enhancement of our solutions.
Work with Sr. leadership to align engineering initiatives with the companys strategic goals and objectives.
Set clear goals and performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, and provide constructive feedback to nurture individual and team growth.
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, inspiring a collaborative and high-performance culture.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, implementation teams, Production support, and operations, to ensure best-in class customer experience.
Think differently and foster a culture of curiosity, reasoning and innovation.
Establish and enforce stringent quality practices, Non-functional standards and best practices throughout the engineering process to deliver products that exceed customer expectations.
Develop and implement robust frameworks to track schedules, milestones and success criteria. Provide inputs to relevant stakeholders regarding schedule progress, health, issues/risks, and key dependencies.
Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes.

Required Skills:

Technical Expertise

Hands-on experience on using Java and related open source technologies for building enterprise class web applications
High technical credibility - ability to audit technical decisions and push for the best solution to a problem.
Sound technical foundation of single and multi-tier architecture, web-based development, and Services Oriented Architecture.
Solid experience in spring, hibernate, spring boot and docker.
Solid knowledge of version control systems like GitLab and build tools like
Familiarity with observability tools like Elastic, Splunk, Grafana, and other microservices tools
Experience with design patterns and microservices
Knowledge of scalability and availability best practices
Knowledge of incident management and resolution processes
Ability and willingness to analyze and integrate inputs from technical and business resources to draw clear conclusions.
Ability to see the big picture, while not losing sight of necessary details
Proven track record of leading productive engineering teams and shipping world class products

Result Oriented

A bias towards action and an iterative approach to problem-solving
Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Consistently seek ways to improve existing processes.
Proactive risk management: Ability to identify and mitigate risks.
Data driven: Ability to identify meaningful data to be captured and present it in a clear, concise way. Influence data driven decisions as part of continuous improvement.
Strong experience collaborating with Product, Production support, and other cross-functional stakeholders in metrics and goal driven organization.
Ability to step up in complex situations while maintaining poise and professionalism.
Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and keep delivery on schedule.

People development

Create an environment conducive to individual and team success while upholding Bottomlines mission and values.
Passion for developing people with effective coaching and mentoring skills.
Ability to identify and successfully groom new leaders in technical areas for handling higher level of responsibilities.
Exceptional interpersonal written, and verbal communications and presentation skills.
Ability to communicate effectively, freely, and concisely to influence, negotiate, and convince.

Experience and Education:

10+ years of industry experience with 4+ years of leadership/management experience with a team of 5-10 developers QA.
Bachelors/Masters degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

Java Lead - Full Stack