Java Software Engineer; Team Lead

Working independently, the Java Software Engineer;
Team Lead owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers.

Experienced hands-on technical team lead to design, deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade solutions. This role requires deep Java expertise with strong knowledge of modern software architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven), cloud-native AWS development, and Dev Ops/CI/CD proficiency.

The lead will provide technical mentorship through code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders, while making architectural and technical decisions and drive engineering best practices.

Essential Job Functions:

Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives

Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

Engineering/Operations Excellence:

Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions

Implements methods for managing and maintaining the organization’s software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds

Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

Essential Technical

Skills:

Backend Development:

Experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures

Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and Graph

QL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns.

Data Storage Technologies:

Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases and No

SQL systems with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements

Experience with Open Search and No

SQL databases is highly preferred

System Design & Architecture:

System Design & Architecture: system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale

DevOps &

Infrastructure:

Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong Dev Ops culture within the team.

Collaboration:

Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities

Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions

Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

Education/Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.

Strong system design experience

Strong experience in object-oriented development

Strong experience with cloud technologies

Strong experience in data storage technologies

Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization

Strong experience in Dev Ops and CICD technologies

Strong experience test automation and unit testing

Strong…