Lead Application Engineer (Java)

• Lead and mentor a team of application engineers, providing technical guidance, architectural direction, code reviews, and support for complex engineering challenges
• Design, develop, and maintain production-ready applications and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and RESTful APIs
• Apply strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering principles to build scalable and resilient applications
• Lead application assessment, containerization, and migration from VM-based environments to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including application configurations, secrets management, runtime readiness, and test automation
• Guide application deployment and troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments, including Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, resource configurations, and application runtime issues
• Develop and implement unit, integration, and API testing strategies to ensure application quality, reliability, and production readiness
• Design and maintain application data-access layers integrating SQL and NoSQL databases
• Implement application observability practices, including centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
• Collaborate with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to establish engineering standards, reusable solutions, and deployment best practices
• Plan and coordinate engineering activities, manage technical dependencies, and guide the team in delivering application modernization initiatives across a portfolio of 500+ applications
• Leverage agentic engineering tools, including Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini, to accelerate code development, modernization, testing, documentation, and engineering automation
• Utilize GCP as the primary cloud platform; experience with other cloud platforms is a plus

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Strong experience in application engineering, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, application testing, and production troubleshooting
• Experience with application modernization, VM-to-container migration, and cloud deployments
• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, application observability, and distributed systems
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills
• Preferred: Experience with React, Angular, or Vue and integration with RESTful APIs.

This role is eligible for our competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to support your well-being:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Sick Leave
• Parental Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• 401 (k) Employer Match
• Employee Referral Bonuses

Check out our complete list of benefits here - https://egen.ai/people/#benefits

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