Technical Lead - Java Microservice

About the job
We are looking for a Technology Lead responsible for managing the development team. This position involves overseeing complex groups of back-end services and their client-end (desktop and mobile) counterparts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop applications and coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

Responsibilities

• 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 these problems.
• Maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
• Manage the team and successfully deliver the project.

Skills

• Working experience in an agile software development environment with a good understanding of agile architecture principles.
• Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision making.
• Demonstrated strong technical skills and a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices such as Microservices, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, and Evolutionary architecture, with a passion for hands-on coding.
• Strong foundational knowledge of software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes, with the ability to apply them in real-world scenarios.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset.
• Excellent personal skills to continuously engage and communicate with an empathetic mindset.
• Experience in delivering architectures for large software solutions meeting critical business purposes.
• Ability to proactively discover technical debts and continuous improvement opportunities of existing live systems.
• Collaborate closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with the ability to write reusable components/Java libraries.
• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google, and Serverless architecture and Cloud Native solutions.
• Experience with front-end technologies like Angular, React, Vue, or Flutter, and knowledge of Node.js.
• Familiarity with concepts of OOPS, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful.
• Experience with JSON and Swagger Open API specification, microservices orchestration, service mesh, authentication, and authorization (IdP and OAuth2), testing patterns and automation, and app reliability.
• Experience in NoSQL (preferably MongoDB) and RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Ability to write complex SQL queries, procedures, and functions, and to design and create database schemas that support business processes.
• Work experience in the Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Batch, AOP, Spring Data, Spring JDBC, Spring Boot, Spring Reactive) and familiarity with Spring Security and OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technologies like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
• Expertise in container-based architecture – Kubernetes, 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.