Lead Java Developer

Full Ownership/Accountability:

"Demonstrates end-to-end ownership, from strong analytical skills and coding to testing, deployment, and ongoing production maintenance".

Proactive & Independent:

"Shows the capability to work independently, taking ownership of tasks through to production, including deployment and production testing, ensuring consistent quality and meeting deadlines".

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring high-quality code delivery and adherence to best practices.

Own end-to-end design, development, and deployment of distributed systems and microservices.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QA, DevOps, Architecture, Product) to ensure smooth delivery.

Participate in architectural discussions and propose scalable, secure, and robust solutions.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead with 8+ years of hands-on development experience and a minimum of 3+ years in team leadership. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in building scalable microservices, working in agile environments, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders including clients, architects, DevOps teams, and QA. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to drive end-to-end solution delivery, and strong communication for requirement gathering and solution recommendations.

Required Experience & Skills

· 8+ years of experience in software development.

· 3+ years of proven experience leading teams.

· Proven proficiency writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

· Strong coding skills in Java and hands-on experience with production level development in Spring Boot Microservices Framework.

· Strong code reviewing skills, unit testing skills using JUnit and Mockito.

· Proven proficiency in writing clean, maintainable automation using the Cucumber framework.

· Strong experience in designing and developing resilience and secure applications.

· Proven proficiency in performance analysis using newrelic or similar, addressing/suggesting fixes and performance tuning.

· Demonstrates end-to-end ownership, from analysis and coding to testing, deployment, and ongoing production maintenance.

· Shows the capability to work independently, taking ownership of tasks through to production, ensuring consistent quality and meeting deadlines.

· Provides reliable, high-quality contributions across the development lifecycle, including analyzing the requirements/code, writing code, code review, test coverage, and deployment

· Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.

· Hands-on experience with Version Control (GIT), CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation.

· Mandatory to have strong Domain experience in Retail/eCommerce

· Strong experience in integration with Loyalty/Rewards/Martech or Similar.

· Strong experience in designing and integrating applications with SaS-based platforms.