LEAD JAVA DEVELOPER
Skillfinder International
Zürich, Switzerland
19 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English, Swiss German Experience level
SeniorJob location
Zürich, Switzerland
Tech stack
Java
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Elasticsearch
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Spring
Scrum
Spring-boot
Backend
Kubernetes
Deployment Automation
Reactive Programming
Docker
Microservices
Job description
In this position, you will lead an agile backend team working across multiple locations, fostering a strong quality-driven engineering culture and ensuring the continuous delivery of robust, secure solutions., * Lead and develop an agile engineering team using Kanban and Scrum methodologies
- Act as the primary interface between engineering and management, translating business needs into clear technical direction
- Take ownership of the backend codebase, technology stack, and applications across the full lifecycle
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain client-facing wealth management applications
- Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Drive DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, and operational excellence
- Ensure engineering standards, security, and compliance are met consistently
Requirements
Do you have experience in Spring Framework?, You bring a strong quality mindset and understand the real impact technology has on end users. You are comfortable leading people and influencing decisions at senior levels., * Proven experience leading and developing engineers in a distributed environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with senior leadership
- Fluency in Swiss German and English
- Deep expertise in Java and the Java Virtual Machine
- Hands-on experience building microservice-based backends with Java and Spring Boot
- Practical experience with Docker and container orchestration, ideally Kubernetes, * Background in finance or wealth management with knowledge of financial instruments
- Experience with Elasticsearch and messaging systems
- Exposure to reactive programming