Lead Java Developer

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead - Go/Java with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members.
• Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications
• Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development
• Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies.
• Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions.
• Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance.
• Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes to technical planning.
• Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes.
• Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues
• Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards
• Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team
• Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems
• Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas
• Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents
• Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies.

Qualifications

Professional and Technical Skills

• Design and implement microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) in Go/Java with clean, testable architecture.
• Write efficient, concurrent code using goroutines, channels, and the context package; manage timeouts/cancellation.
• Own service quality: unit/integration tests, benchmarks, profiling, and race detection.
• Integrate with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis caching and messaging Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Build and ship via Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins); automate deploys and rollbacks.
• Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry; drive SLOs and incident RCA.
• Ensure security basics: TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, input validation, dependency hygiene (Go modules).
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
• Experience with Code management tools.
• Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms.