Java Technical Lead

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across design, coding, code reviews, and architecture.
• Provide technical direction on application development, system design, integration, and performance optimization.
• Ensure adherence to coding best practices, security guidelines, architecture standards, and DevOps processes.
2. Application Design & Development
• Design and develop enterprise-scale applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
• Implement cloud-ready, scalable, and secure RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Apply microservices design patterns such as Circuit Breaker, API Gateway, Saga, CQRS, Strangler, Event Sourcing, etc.
• Create reusable components and standardized patterns for application teams.
3. Database Design & Optimization
• Design normalized relational database schemas using SQL and RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Optimize queries, indexes, and stored procedures for high-performance applications.
• Ensure effective data modeling and integration.
4. Cloud Engineering (AWS Exposure)
• Work with cloud-native components, deployment models, scaling strategies, and cloud networking concepts.
5. DevOps & CI/CD Integration
• Collaborate closely with DevOps teams to build, enhance, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote automation for builds, deployments, testing, and monitoring.
• Support containerization (Docker) and orchestration exposure (Kubernetes preferred).
6. Secure Application Development
• Enforce secure coding standards such as OWASP Top 10, API security, token-based authentication, and encryption.
• Conduct security code reviews and vulnerability assessments.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security guidelines.

7. GenAI Code Assist & Modern Engineering
• Leverage Generative AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT-based coding aids, or similar) to improve productivity.
• Promote modern engineering practices like TDD/BDD, clean code, and automated quality gates.
Required Technical Skills
Core Skills
• Strong experience with Java (8/11/17)
• Expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs
• Hands-on with Microservices design patterns
• Strong SQL, RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Cloud exposure: AWS
• Experience in DevOps practices & CI/CD pipelines
• Secure development practices (JWT, OAuth2, OWASP)
• BPMN workflow tools: Camunda or Activiti
Additional Good-to-Have Skills
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes
• Exposure to messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Knowledge of caching (Redis, Hazelcast)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Knowledge of API Gateway concepts
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
Professional Experience
• 10-15 years of hands-on experience in enterprise application development.
• Minimum 3+ years in a technical lead or senior engineer role.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end application development cycles.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.