Java Software Engineer; Team Lead

Overview

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise‑grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale

• 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

• 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

• 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 CI/CD technologies
• Strong experience in test automation and unit testing
• Strong experience in software security