Lead Java Engineer

** This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds - flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.*
* ** Skills and Responsibilities:*
* + Overall 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering discipline

+ Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) experience working with Java 8+. REST, SOAP, Micro Services and Service Oriented and Even Driven Architectures

+ Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) Experience working with Spring, Spring Boot, Solution Architecture, Design Patterns, Integration Frameworks, SQL, NOSQL

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Experience with near/distributed caches and strategies e.g. Redis, Apache Ignite

+ Experience taking rotations for production support and addressing issues on time

+ Experience mentoring junior developers and offshore team including reviewing quality of deliverables (design, code and timelines)

+ Experience optimizing API performance - API resiliency, caching frameworks and streaming/messaging platforms Kafka and MQ

+ Deep understanding of software engineering practices, object-oriented analysis & design, design patterns, Coding modularity, Prototypes and algorithms.

+ Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

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Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk

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Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins

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Experience with AWS is a is a plus

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Experience with AL, ML, NLP is a plus

+ Financial services experience highly preferred.