Lead Java Backend Developer

Typical task breakdown :

• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application / technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Works directly on complex application / technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
• Mentor and assist software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Identifies and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Guide the team to develop a structured application / interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
• Lead development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams
• Work with product owners to develop and implement complex, iterative delivery plans.
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by CLIENT management from time to time.

Interaction with team :

Education & Experience Required :

Required Technical Skills

(Required)

Top candidates will also have :

o Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.

o Developing software applications using relational and non-relational databases.

o Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

o Deploying software using CI / CD tools such as Jenkins, GoCD, Azure Devops etc.

o Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.

o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)

Batch or stream processing systems such as Apache Spark, Flink, Akka, Storm

o Message brokers such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache ActiveMQ, Kinesis.

o Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs

o Experience writing API proxies on platforms such as Apigee Edge, AWS API Gateway or Azure API Gateway

o Hands one experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible

o Test driven development and behavior driven development.

o Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI / CD pipelines.

o Datastores such as Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle.

o Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.

Soft Skills

(Required)