Lead Software Engineer - Java

meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.

• Assesses compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performance at scale, and exceed customer expectations.

• Provides technical guidance to coders and infra systems and process optimization opportunities.

• Drives architectural reviews, code reviews and business demos.

• Manages the ongoing development of the team, including recruitment, performance management, coaching, and mentoring.

• Collaborates with peer teams on complex, global engineering efforts to ensure architecture agreement, resource coordination, and implementation timelines.

• Translates business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.

• Ensures proper communication concerning changes in established milestones or challenges that may affect the outcome of a project's completion date.

• Provides out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Deep understanding of architectural concepts, issues and trends.

• Demonstrable experience in people management as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Proficient in Java17+ with Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and Cassandra)

• Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language

• Expertise in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business and technical problems

• Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling and operational stability

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Ability to communicate effectively with senior management and other departments. Effectively organize and manage multiple organizational initiatives and encourage coworkers to do the same.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience with a statically compiled language like C, C++, Rust or Golang
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro or Parquet)
• Experience with gRPC and caching technologies, e.g. Redis, Valkey
• Experience in performance / non-functional testing tools and techniques (e.g. JMeter, Gatling, Blazemeter)
• Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD) & Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)