Tech Lead - Java

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

Responsibilities

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help 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 strong understanding of agile architecture principles.
• Strong collaborative mindset for collective decentralized decision-making.
• Demonstrated technical skills with 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, along 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 pragmatically.
• Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth mindset, and the ability to motivate programmers to deliver with craftsmanship.
• Good communication skills and an empathetic mindset for continuous engagement with team members.
• Experience delivering architectures for large software solutions with critical business purposes.
• Ability to identify technical debts and improvement opportunities in existing live systems.
• Work closely with product owners and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize the technical backlog.
• Proficient in Java & Java EE, with knowledge of its ecosystems and skills in writing reusable components/Java libraries.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google and expertise in Serverless architecture and Cloud Native solutions.
• Experience with front-end technologies such as Angular, React, Vue, or Flutter, and knowledge of Node.js.
• Understanding of OOPS, MVC, JDBC, RESTful concepts, and experience with JSON and Swagger Open API specification.
• Familiarity with microservices orchestration techniques, service meshes, and authentication protocols.
• Experience in NoSQL (preferably MongoDB) and RDBMS (like Oracle, PostgreSQL), including the ability to write complex SQL queries and design database schemas.
• Proficiency in the Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Batch, AOP, Spring Data, Spring JDBC, Spring Boot, Spring Reactive) and Spring Security, including OAuth2 implementation.
• Experience with messaging technologies like JMS, Active MQ, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
• Expertise in container-based architecture with 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, GitLab, and familiarity with build tools like Ant, Maven, and Gradle.