Description

• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance and leadership to the development team in Java best practices and design patterns.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of software architecture and ensure Java solutions meet project requirements. Responsible for anticipating and identifying technical impediments and solving them with architecture design, technology choices, or prioritization.
• Code Reviews: Oversee code reviews, maintain code quality, and mentor team members.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize Java applications for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
• Team Collaboration: Foster teamwork, facilitate communication, and encourage knowledge sharing among team members.
• Mentoring and Training: Mentors and coaches the technical team, specifically with code reviews, pair programming, etc.
• Client/Stakeholder Communication: Interact with clients or stakeholders, provide technical insights, and offer solutions to meet project goals.
• Works with the Product Owner to align the roadmap with strengths and opportunities within the existing architecture.
• Co-creates engineering practices, coding style guidelines, testing approach, etc.
• Constantly looking for better ways to solve technical problems and design solutions, not afraid of challenging the status quo.

Requirements

• Expertise in Core Java: Demonstrable experience in Core Java is essential, providing the foundation for technical leadership.
• Spring Boot: Proficiency in Spring Boot, a popular Java framework for building microservices, is required.
• Advanced Programming Principles: Knowledge of advanced object-oriented programming principles like SOLID is necessary for guiding the development team effectively.
• API Development: Significant experience in designing and using RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, asynchronous message queues, and services.
• Architecture Expertise: Proven experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed architectures, particularly microservices-based architectures.
• Database Knowledge: Familiarity with both relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis) is crucial for making informed architectural decisions.
• Testing Advocacy: A commitment to promoting the writing of effective unit, integration, and API contract tests for maintaining code quality.
• AWS Knowledge: Required knowledge of AWS tools, including ECS (Elastic Container Service), Cloudwatch, Lambda, RDS (Relational Database Service). AWS certification is a significant advantage.
• DevOps Proficiency: Comfort with modern DevOps best practices and tools, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), and ElasticSearch.
• Experienced in Agile Development methodologies