Java Technical Lead

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Experience with developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools experience.

• Significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems.

• Good management and team development skills: ability to set roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and honest feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results.

• Expertise and interest in growing teams: interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members.

• Good software engineering methodology: meaningful and deeply rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.

• Exceptional technical skills in data structure, algorithm, object-oriented design principle.

• Lead from the front when the situation calls for it.

CANDIDATE SHOULD HAVE:

8+ years experience developing software as an engineer.

Good software engineering methodology: meaningful and deeply rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs.

Significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems.

Architecture: Knowledge of data structures and an eye for architecture. Should be able to discuss the trade-off between architectural choices, both on a theoretical level and on an applied level.

Strong coding/debugging abilities: Should have advanced knowledge of at least one programming language and keen to learn more.

Fast learner: Thrive on learning new technologies

Should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our massive growth and rapidly evolving business environment.

Should understand requirements beyond the written word: Whether working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, attention to detail should be there

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE:

Strong in Java 8+ Programming, Multi-threading aspect

Strong with Design Patterns and Architectural patterns

Hands on experience developing RESTful Micro-services in Java, Spring, Spring Boot Experience in using Kafka or other message queuing systems

Good with Relational and Non-Relational Databases Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Cassandra

Experience in using Docker and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes is a plus

Experience with Elastic search, Kibana, MqTT, IOT is a plus