Full Stack Lead - Backend Engineering

The ideal candidate should be strong in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, System Design, Distributed Systems, AWS, and Kubernetes. This is not a pure architect or management role - the person must remain hands-on with coding while leading architecture, integrations, and delivery., * Lead system design, architecture, and backend development.

• Develop scalable services using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and REST APIs.
• Design Kafka-based event-driven and distributed systems.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, and integration patterns.
• Remain hands-on with coding, code reviews, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Lead multiple development workstreams and mentor engineers.
• Coordinate with Product, QA, DevOps, frontend/mobile, and integration teams.
• Own delivery from requirements through production release and support.
• Design for scalability, availability, resiliency, security, caching, and observability.
• Work with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.

We are looking for a highly experienced hands-on Full Stack Lead with a strong backend focus to design, develop, and lead scalable enterprise applications., * 12+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong Java / Spring Boot development.
• System Design / Software Architecture.
• Microservices / Distributed Systems.
• Kafka / Event-Driven Architecture.
• REST APIs / OpenAPI / Swagger.
• AWS or similar cloud platform.
• Docker / Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on technical leadership.

Preferred

Experience with Claude, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph, Spring AI, RAG, MCP, or AI agents is a strong plus.