Lead Software Engineer _Java_Kubernates_MongoDB

Core Responsibilities

• Resolves complex problems spanning multiple applications to drive improvements across portfolios; leads projects with significant business implications and participates in planning, prioritization and estimates.
• Leads development of integrated business and/or enterprise application to ensure solution is resilient, scalable, and maintainable and meets architectural standards.
• Builds awareness and product alignment to enterprise recommended frameworks, tools, technologies, engineering platforms, and architectural design processes.
• Drives operational excellence through disaster recovery and capacity planning, performance, regression and chaos testing, observability alerts and dashboards, and reliability processes and recovery runbooks.
• Deconstructs complex problems into simple solutions that can evolve over time.
• Educates others on engineering standards and best practices, including code quality analysis, test coverage, security principles (authentication and authorization protocols), and Agile processes.
• Mentors and advises others by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of enterprise and industry technologies, tools, methodologies, policies, standards, and best practices.
• Continuously explores and recommends new enterprise software components and technologies.
• Continuously works to simplify solutions, optimize processes, remove bottlenecks, and resolve escalated issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in software development or related field
• At least 1-2 years of experience in a lead role, leading complex projects and collaborating across diverse teams.
• 6 years of experience in any of the following: software engineering competencies frontend technologies (UI/UX), middleware (microservices and APIs), database technologies, DevOps
• 6 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development lifecycles through iterative agile development
• Bachelors degree in computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in computer science, CIS, or related field
• 6 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software environment, developing and implementing business systems within an organization, and working with source code control systems
• 6 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions
• 6 years of experience working with three or more of the following: continuous integration/continuous deployment tools, frontend technologies (UI/UX), middleware, database technologies, DevOps
• 4 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
• Skill Set Required
• Experience in developing products/applications using Java spring boot microservices
• Proficiency in both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, with experience in designing data models and optimizing queries.
• Good understanding and experience of using Java 8 features and REST
• Preferred experience with React JS and a solid understanding of JavaScript technologies.
• Experience in using GIT, Maven and understanding of CI/CD tools
• Experience in writing automated unit tests using Junit/Mockito
• Good understanding on cloud-based architectures, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar tools for deploying applications in containerized environments.
• Security Best Practices: Understanding of application security principles, including authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, JWT).
• Performance Tuning: Ability to analyze and optimize application performance and scalability.