Lead Java Developer

Position Overview:

The job profile for this position is Software Engineering Advisor.

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This role provides expert content/professional leadership on complex Application Development assignments/projects. Within this role, we expect you to exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives. This role uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders and focuses on providing thought leadership within Information Management but requires understanding of the larger business context. In addition, this role will lead and mentor more junior engineers. They are expected to work closely with engineering peers, developers, technical project managers, principal engineers and business stakeholders to ensure that application solutions meet business/customer requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Perform software development and maintenance of entity-based micro services using Java/J2EE including Java 1.8 features like Lambdas, Streams, and Filters and with different frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate, OpenShift, AWS, Jenkins, Kafka Streams, and REST.
• Lead the design and architecture of complex backend systems, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical decisions and delivery high-quality solutions.
• Working in an AGILE environment with bi-weekly sprints and provided work updates in daily SCRUM calls, maintaining industry level best practices for software development using wide varieties of latest technologies and frameworks.
• Implementing test suites to test the developed functionalities based on test scenarios proposed by Product Owner using Test Automation Frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, etc. to ensure code quality and performance.
• Participating in software/hardware configuration, releases and installation tasks
• Participate in technical planning and requirements gathering phases including Design, code, test, troubleshoot and document engineering software applications.
• Demonstrating the ability to adapt and work with team members of various experience level.
• Working on developing REST APIs (Micro Services) to expose REST end points which will be consumed by the end users as per the internal business requirements.
• Research or emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for their adoption when relevant.
• Mentor and coach junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Participate in code reviews after each successful push in the repo, suggest if any changes required to maintain the cleaner and concise code.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Must be very strong in Java with Spring Boot framework. We want Java engineers that really passionate about Java and take the time to understand why they do things a certain way.
• Familiar with RESTful Web Services, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and automation skills (such as Jenkins and Cucumber).
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire others.
• Conduct code reviews and mentoring for more Jr resources
• Ability to manage development individually, and multi-tasking, work with cross business teams/IT areas
• Ability to look at big picture without losing site of details
• Understanding of IT, and release/delivery using CICD pipelines
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders
• Ability to provide On-call Support for customer issues. Perform triage on issues and identify root cause, provide solution
• Adaptability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Attention to detail to ensure high-quality software deliverables
• Time management skills to prioritize tasks and meet project deadlines

Required Experience & Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline strongly preferred,
• 11-13 years experience
• Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.
• Proven experience with architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions.