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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