Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers in designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure and maintainable applications.
• Architect and implement robust backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.
• Drive containerization and orchestration strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Apply modern DevOps principles with Maven, Gradle, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tools.
• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and QA teams to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (Scrum or Kanban) including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement and backlog grooming.
• Review code, mentor junior developers and enforce coding standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis to identify and resolve performance or stability issues.
• Ensure high standards of software quality within team by establishing good practices and habits.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven expertise in Java (8/11/17), Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes for microservices deployment.
• Strong knowledge of build tools: Maven, Gradle
• Experience working in Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with source control (e.g. Git), CI/CD with LightSpeed Enterprises
• Strong leadership and team management experience
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Good to have

• Experience with cloud-native platforms (Enterprise Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, KLK stack).
• Knowledge of testing tools like Junit, Quantum, Mockito, Karma, Jasmine.
• Strong experience in front-end development using Angular (10+)
• Build responsive, user-centric front-end components using Angular.
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
• Clear understanding of building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery
• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premises and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
• Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
• Multiple years of experience CI/CD pipelines and using front-end test strategies and frameworks (Cypress, jasmine, karma, selenium etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL)

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Job Family Group

Technology------------------------------------------------------

Job Family

Applications Development------------------------------------------------------

Time Type

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