Senior Java Back - End Developer - Assistant Vice President

Role Summary  We’re seeking a seasoned  Senior Java Back - End Developer  with 5+ years of experience to lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of mission‑critical systems. You will own architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to build scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design   Define and evolve system architecture for  cloud-native, microservices/event-driven  platforms (scalability, resilience, security, cost).
Create  high-level and low-level designs , integration patterns, API contracts, and reference implementations.
Lead design reviews; ensure alignment with  domain-driven design (DDD) ,  12‑factor  principles, and organization standards.

Engineering Leadership   Lead squads through  full SDLC —from discovery and PoCs to production and SRE handoff.
Establish  coding standards , code review practices, and  secure-by-default  patterns.
Mentor and coach senior engineers; support career growth and succession of technical leaders.

Hands-on Development   Build core services using  Java (17+) ,  Spring Boot ,  REST/GraphQL , and message/event streaming.
Optimize for  performance, concurrency, observability , and  operational excellence  (SLOs, error budgets).
Drive quality with  unit/integration/contract testing , test data strategy, and automated quality gates.

Cloud & Platform   Design for  AWS/Azure/GCP , container orchestration ( Kubernetes ),  service mesh , and  CI/CD .
Implement  infrastructure-as-code (IaC)  patterns and secrets management.
Partner with SRE/Platform teams on  monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing , and cost governance.

Data & Integration   Architect integrations across  SQL/No

SQL ,  caching  (Redis), and  event streams  (Kafka/Pulsar).
Define  data contracts , schema evolution strategies, and  idempotent/eventual consistency  patterns.

Security & Compliance   Embed  App Sec  best practices,  OWASP  controls, secure API/auth (OAuth2/OIDC), and  zero trust  patterns.
Ensure compliance with  regulatory  and  audit  requirements where applicable.

Stakeholder Partnership   Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and  architecture runway .
Communicate trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

GenAI :  Knowledge of MCP, A2A, Agentic Architecture

Required Qualifications:

5+ years  of progressive experience building enterprise systems, with  5+ years  in  Java  and  Spring  ven delivery of  cloud-native ,  microservices , and  event-driven  architectures.
Strong expertise in:
Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud
REST/GraphQL APIs , gRPC (nice-to-have)
Kafka  (or Pulsar),  Kubernetes ,  Docker
RDBMS  (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and  No

SQL  (MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB)
Caching  (Redis),  CI/CD  (Git Hub Actions/Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins),  IaC  (Terraform/ARM)
Observability  (Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK),  feature flags /progressive delivery

Solid grasp of  concurrency ,  performance tuning ,  resiliency patterns  (circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), and  fault-tolerance .
Demonstrated leadership of  architectural forums ,  design reviews , and  mentorship .
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Nice-to-Have:
Domain knowledge:  Payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecom.
Security:  Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, mTLS.
Data:  CDC (Debezium),  schema registry ,  exactly-once semantics , streaming ETL.
Platform:  Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways (Kong/Apigee), Serverless (Lambda/Functions).
Modern patterns:  CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, hexagonal architecture.

Education:

Bachelor’s…