Lead Java Developer

Job Title: Lead Java Developer

Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Experience: 8+ Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role: We are looking for a highly skilled Java Programmer Lead with strong technical leadership capabilities and hands-on expertise in building scalable, cloud-native microservices platforms. The ideal candidate will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business needs.

This role requires a blend of architecture, hands-on coding, and team mentoring, with a strong focus on payment domain systems, performance optimization, and modern engineering practices.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide strong technology leadership and collaborate closely with customers to deliver business solutions
• Review and guide technical design to ensure optimal architecture and implementation
• Ensure adherence to application engineering guidelines, processes, and best practices
• Design and develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable applications
• Work with cross-functional teams to achieve shared business goals
• Evaluate service-level issues and implement improvements to enhance system performance
• Write high-quality code aligned with coding standards and architectural principles
• Mentor team members on best practices and modern development methodologies
• Drive adoption of relevant technologies to improve engineering efficiency
• Ensure delivery of solutions with the highest quality standards
• Participate in software development lifecycle including analysis, development, testing, and deployment
• Identify and resolve production and non-production application issues
• Convert business requirements into technical deliverables (Agile stories/tasks)
• Recommend improvements to enhance existing Java applications and processes
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and software development trends

Skills & Experience Required

• 8+ years of experience in application design, development, and architecture
• Strong expertise in Java 8+, J2EE technologies, and design patterns
• Hands-on experience in Microservices architecture (minimum 2+ years)
• Strong working knowledge of Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Spring Cloud (Config, Eureka)
• Experience in service discovery & registration (Eureka, Consul)
• Expertise in Microservices observability tools: Logging: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Tracing: Zipkin, Fault tolerance: Hystrix
• Strong knowledge of multithreading, memory management, and Java internals
• Hands-on experience with JDK 1.8, Maven, Git/Bitbucket

Why Optimus

Lead the future of intelligent financial operations with Optimus.

At Optimus, we are transforming how businesses manage complex financial ecosystems through cutting-edge AI-powered payment and reconciliation platforms. Our solutions enable organizations to seamlessly process, validate, and reconcile high-volume transactions—delivering real-time insights, eliminating revenue leakages, and driving operational efficiency at scale.

With a strong focus on autonomous financial operations (FinOps), Optimus empowers global enterprises, fintech companies, and payment-driven businesses to modernize back-office processes, accelerate go-to-market timelines, and enhance decision-making through clean, unified financial data.

By combining AI, APIs, and no-code capabilities, we help organizations automate finance workflows, ensure accuracy, and gain complete visibility across payment channels—making Optimus a trusted partner for innovation in the fast-evolving digital payments landscape.

To know more about the organization, please visit: AI Powered Payment Reconciliation Platform | Optimus