Responsibilities:
Role Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java) to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high‑performance backend systems. This role emphasizes technical excellence, mentorship, driving projects to completion, and clear stakeholder communication.
Key Responsibilities
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Design & Build: Architect and implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs aligned to business and non-functional requirements.
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Quality Engineering: Establish and maintain a test strategy (unit, integration, performance), enforce code quality.
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Performance & Resilience: Profile JVM and databases, apply caching, implement resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, backoff).
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Security & Compliance: Implement secure coding, OAuth2/JWT, input validation, encryption.
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Observability: Implement structured logs, metrics, and distributed tracing, define SLIs/SLOs, alerts, and meaningful dashboards.
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Technical Enablers: Contribute to shared libraries, templates, and reusable patterns, improve developer experience (DX).
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Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers via pairing and reviews, communicate trade-offs and risks early to Product/Architecture/QA.
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Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand‑ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity.
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Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensure Definition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accurate story point estimation.
Qualifications:
Must‑Have Skills (Java)
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Java / Java 8+
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Deep OOP & SOLID principles.
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Streams API, Optional, functional interfaces, lambda expressions.
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Multithreading & Concurrency: thread pools, Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks, concurrent collections.
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Java Memory Model: heap/stack fundamentals, Garbage Collection behavior and tuning.
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Web Technologies
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Design & implement RESTful APIs (idempotency, pagination, robust error models).
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Rate limiting & API Gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.
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Exposure to WebLogic/WebSphere (or embedded servers: Tomcat/Jetty).
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Spring Framework
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Spring Core (IoC/DI), Spring MVC, Spring Boot (auto-configuration, starter dependencies).
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Spring Security (JWT, OAuth2), Spring Batch, Spring AOP.
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Architecture & Design Patterns
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Event-Driven Design (MQ messaging/queuing).
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Design patterns: Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template.
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Data & Tooling
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Strong SQL (DB2/MySQL): schema design, indexing, query tuning.
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Build & CI/CD: Maven/Gradle, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
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Testing: JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers
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performance testing (JMeter/Gatling).
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Observability: logs/metrics/traces (Dynatrace, ELK).
Good to Have
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Messaging/eventing (Kafka/JMS)
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Containers (Docker) and orchestration basics (Kubernetes/ECS).
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DDD architecture
Soft Skills
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Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and bias for action.
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Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones.
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Mentors teammates, provides clear, constructive feedback.
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Demonstrates ownership, raises the bar, and consistently exceeds day-to-day expectations.
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Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drives clarity and resolution with stakeholders.
