Lead Java Developer

Description
Senior Tech Lead - to drive software development, leading a team of modern java developers

Job Duties and Responsibilities Include:

Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact

Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines

Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs

Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors

Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals

Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Roles and Responsibilities:

Candidate will lead 1-2 scrum teams of java developers to build a new enterprise software application.

Candidate must have excellent analytical skills to understand the functional and technical requirement to build this software application.

Candidate must have hands-on experience developing new software using the current technology stack running on the cloud such as those mentioned in the Project Environment.

Candidate must have hands-on experience with developing new software adopting industry best practices, such as 15-factor methodology, feature toggle, circuit breaker, etc.

Candidate is expected to define design pattern, provide high- and low-level design direction, and collaborate with individual developers to develop concurrent components and microservices.

Candidate must be adept and nimble in adopting new technology.

Candidate will work with other technology leaders and stakeholders to ensure the delivery commitment for the scrum team.

Project Environment:

More than 80% of the team's capacity will focus on building the new enterprise software application.

The system being built is highly complex in functionality and expected to process large transactions in extremely high volume.

This application is designed for modularization, as components and microservices, and orchestration of these services will be based on configurable processing workflows.

It will have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases and run on PCF and TKGI cloud.

Components and microservices environment include Kafka, AVRO, Java, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Orchestra, Apigee,

Test automation is extremely important using Junit, Karate, Cucumber, TDD, BDD.

High availability environment is with Circuit Breaker, Feature Toggle using Harness, Blue-Green deployment, Grafana, AppDynamics, Liquibase.

Applications are continuously scanned for outdated software and vulnerabilities so attention to secure coding practices are extremely important.

Basic, Required Qualifications:

Minimum ten years of software Engineering experience, such as design, analysis, development, testing, and documentation of general modules or features of new or upgraded software systems and products.

Minimum five years’ experience leading one or more software development scrum teams.

Minimum five years’ of software development experience with microservices and orchestrating services to process high volume transactions running on PCF, Kubernetes, Cloud

Minimum three years’ hands-on experience designing and developing systems using MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.

Minimum five years’ experience with software development and building systems from the ground up, adopting well-design patterns, best coding practices, automation, reusable modularization, test and business driven development, etc.

Minimum three years’ of hands-on leadership experience working with individual developers to plan, deliver, and provide technical guidance for each his own microservice development effort.

Minimum five years’ experience working in agile environment on 2-weeks sprint cycles

Other Desired Qualifications:

Knowledgeable with agile ceremonies, scrum, Jira, Confluence, etc.

Candidate must have hands-on experience developing new software using the current technology stack running on the cloud such as those mentioned in the Project Environment.

This includes Microservice development, Kafka with AVRO, distributed processing orchestration on cloud (PCF &/or TKGI cloud) MongoDB, OBDC database like PostgreSQL, SQL Server databases, Java, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Apigee, Orchestra, TDD, BDD, Angular, React, Circuit Breaker, Feature Toggle / Harness, Grafana, Apigee, Liquibase, Blue-Green deployment, Test Automation knowledge ( Junit, Karate, Cucumber, TDD, BDD), performance monitoring (App Dynamics, Grafana)

Education: Bachelors Degree