Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Java Engineering Lead - Vice President

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead  a team of developers in designing, developing and deploying scalable, secure and maintainable applications.

- Architect and implement robust backend services using  Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA and Spring Cloud.

- Drive containerization and orchestration strategies using  Docker  and  Kubernetes.

- Apply modern DevOps principles with  Maven, Gradle,  CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tools.

- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and QA teams to ensure alignment with business goals.

- Participate in and facilitate Agile ceremonies (Scrum or Kanban) including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, refinement and backlog grooming.

- Review code, mentor junior developers and enforce coding standards and best practices.

- Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis to identify and resolve performance or stability issues.

- Ensure high standards of software quality within team by establishing good practices and habits.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

- 10+ years  of professional software development experience.

- Proven expertise in  Java ( 8/11/17), Spring Boot, Hibernate/ JPA   and   Spring Cloud.

- Proficiency in  Docker  and Kubernetes  for microservices deployment.
- Strong knowledge of build  tools:   Maven, Gradle

- Experience working in  Agile environment  (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence.

- Solid understanding of  RESTful APIs, microservices architecture and design patterns.

- Experience with source control  (e.g.  Git), CI/CD with LightSpeed Enterprises

- Strong leadership and team management experience

- Excellent  communication, problem-solving and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications:   Good to have

- Experience with cloud-native platforms  (Enterprise  Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)

- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools  (e.g.  Prometheus, KLK stack).

- Knowledge  of testing tools like Junit, Quantum, Mockito, Karma, Jasmine.
- Strong experience in  front-end development using  Angular ( 10+)
- Build responsive, user-centric front-end components using  Angular.

- Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.)
- Clear understanding of building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications
- Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery

- Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premises and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.)
- Exposure to Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
- Multiple years of experience CI/CD pipelines and using front-end test strategies and frameworks (Cypress, jasmine, karma, selenium etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
- Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.)
- Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.)
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
- Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL)

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## Job Family Group:
Technology
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## Job Family:
Applications Development
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## Time Type:
Full time
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## Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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## Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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