Lead Java Developer

Role: Hands-on Technical Lead responsible for leading a small development team while actively developing and maintaining enterprise applications. The role involves full-stack development, architecture decisions, mentoring developers, and collaborating with Product, QA, and Architecture teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and provide technical guidance.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java technologies.
• Work across backend, frontend, database, API, and integration layers.
• Build and support REST APIs and enterprise web applications.
• Drive technical decisions, application modernization, performance optimization, and security best practices.

5 Mandatory Skills

1. Java 8 & Java EE/J2EE Development (8+ years hands-on experience)
2. Technical Leadership / Team Lead Experience (mentoring, code reviews, technical ownership)
3. Enterprise Architecture & MVC Frameworks (Servlets, EJBs, DAO/DTO, JPA/Hibernate)
4. Frontend Development with jQuery, Bootstrap, and DataTables
5. Database & REST API Development (SQL, MySQL/MS SQL Server, JDBC, RESTful Services/JAX-RS)

Important Secondary Skills

• JPA, Hibernate, JDBC
• REST APIs (Jersey/JAX-RS)
• WildFly/JBoss/TomEE
• Maven/ANT, Git/GitHub
• Application performance troubleshooting
• MySQL, SQL Server

Preferred Domain Experience

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals
• Regulatory/Product Data Management
• Formula/Recipe/Product Specification environments

Ideal Candidate

A Senior Java Full Stack Lead with strong Java EE backend expertise, jQuery-based frontend experience, team leadership capabilities, and experience supporting large-scale enterprise applications in regulated or manufacturing-focused environments.