Tech Lead - Java

About the Job
We are looking for a Technology Lead responsible for managing the Development team. This role includes overseeing complex groups of back-end services and their client-end counterparts (desktop and mobile). Your primary responsibilities will involve designing and developing applications while coordinating with team members working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior professional with 10-12 years of experience.
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to address these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Manage the team and successfully deliver projects.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in an agile software development environment and a strong understanding of agile architecture principles.
• Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision-making.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, and Evolutionary architecture.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth-oriented mindset.
• Good interpersonal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an empathetic mindset.
• Experience delivering architectures for large software solutions that meet critical business purposes.
• Ability to proactively identify technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities in existing live systems.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with familiarity with its ecosystems and skills to write reusable components/Java libraries.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google, as well as Serverless architecture and Cloud Native solutions.
• Experience in front-end technologies such as Angular, React, Vue, or Flutter, and knowledge of Node.js.
• Familiarity with fundamental concepts such as OOPS, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful APIs, as well as experience with JSON and Swagger Open API specifications.
• Understanding of microservices orchestration, service mesh, authentication and authorization (IdP and OAuth2), testing patterns, app reliability (Monitoring, Logging, and Observability).
• Experience with NoSQL (preferably Mongo) and RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL), including the ability to write complex SQL queries and procedures.
• Design and create database schemas that support business processes.
• Experience with the Spring framework (including Spring Core, Spring Batch, Spring Data, Spring Boot, and Spring Security).
• Familiarity with messaging technologies such as JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
• Experience with container-based architecture including Kubernetes and Docker, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Azure Repo, Bitbucket, Git, and GitLab.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.