Java Tech Lead

• Cultivate a deep understanding of the portfolio of applications we utilize, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, to provide solutions to existing and future challenges.
• Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code reuse.
• Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, work with the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process.
• Provide guidance and direction to the development teams to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward.
• Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks.
• Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical issues.
• Help mentor and upskill team members
• Offer your input and expertise to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver high-quality code along with applicable unit and integration tests

Must have experience:

• You are a proficient API developer with at least 7 years of software development experience
• You have previously led a team before for over a year
• Fluent in Java 8+, Spring Boot 2/3, JUnit, Maven/Gradle

• Familiar with Swagger, Hibernate
• Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP
• GitLab for repository management and CI/CD, SonarQube and Veracode for static code analysis
• Know your way around Apigee, Grafana
• This person must be a great communicator and can provide continues updates to the SEM. Able to present complicated solutions to non-technical audiences in a simple and logical way.
• Comfortable with MySQL and NoSQL

Ideally you have experience in some of:

• Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of systems and microservices design
• Strong understanding of security architecture
• Some understanding of cloud architecture in GCP
• CI/CD experience
• ES6, Typescript, NPM
• React, Redux, Thunks/Sagas
• CSS, CSS-in-JS
• You have experience with various forms of automated testing (Playwright), such as unit, integration, end-to-end, and a11y testing;
• You are opinionated about what it takes to produce great software but remain receptive to other's ideas
• You have developed large applications in a team environment
• Experience with caching (Redis) and messaging solutions (pub/sub) is a plus!
• You are outspoken about what it takes to produce outstanding software, but remain receptive to others ideas;
• You have developed or owned the development of large applications in a team environment;
• You are experienced with software estimation, often confronted with complexity and uncertainty;
• You make decisions based on data. You are proficient with tools to measure every aspect of the application;