Lead Java Developer

Job Summary

Work Location: Kochi or Trivandrum
Employment Type: Immediate joiner

Mandatory Skills:

• Java 21
• Gradle
• Spring Boot MVC
• Spring Data
• Hibernate
• PostgresSQL

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Java Engineer to join our team. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying new features, leading sprint tasks, and ensuring high-quality code. You will actively participate in agile ceremonies, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, adhering to best practices and continuously evolving processes for project improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, develop and deploy new features for the product.
• Lead engineer role in managing tasks in a sprint, reviewing the code of team members, and ensuring first time quality of code.
• Actively participate in the Agile ceremonies like the sprint planning, story grooming, daily scrums or standup meetings, Retrospective meeting, and Sprint reviews.
• Connect with stakeholders to understand requirements and produce technical specifications based on the business requirements.
• Write clean, well-designed code.
• Follow technology best practices.
• Follow modern agile based development process including automated unit testing.
• Take complete ownership of the tasks, user stories committed by self/team.
• Understand the development processes agreed at the organization/client level and ensure that these are followed diligently in the project. Actively participate in optimizing and evolving this process for the improvement of project execution.
• Understand user stories, translate that into technical specifications and convert this into working code.
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Follow industry trends and tools, pilot them and ensure that team can scale up technically to absorb technology best practices over time.
• Readiness to take up initiative for suggesting and implementing the best practices in the areas of respective technology.

Requirements

• Expertise in developing Java Framework with RDBMS or NoSQL database back-end.
• Strong skills in Java, Rest, Springboot and Micro services.
• Proven Expertise in Java 21, Spring boot MVC, Spring data, Hibernate, PostgresSQL.
• Good working exposure with REST API and very strong knowledge in object-oriented concepts & design patterns.
• Exposure to AWS ecosystem and services and experience with Docker, AWS S3, AWS Secrets Manager and Cloudwatch.
• Understanding of Angular concepts – Interceptors, Pipes, Directives, Decorators and exposure to web and JavaScript technologies with HTML/XHTML, XML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, DOM, and version control systems (such as git, Visual Studio Code) will be an advantage.
• Experience in writing Unit test cases using Jasmine/Karma or Jest is a plus.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn and develop with new/unfamiliar technologies.
• Understands impacts of performance-based designs, accessibility standards and security compliance in development.
• Good understanding and working knowledge on project tracking tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, and project collaboration tools like Confluence etc.
• Excellent communication skills and convey the ideas with clarity, depth, and details.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices, and experience in setting up a CI/CD to speed up software development and deployment process, using Jenkins, GitHub, plugins etc.
• To adhere to ISMS policies and procedures.