Lead Java Engineer

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Lead, design, develop and test Web and Cloud-native applications and work with fellow Software Engineers and Product Managers to navigate the discussion and strategy in architecting web and cloud platforms
Own end-to-end architectural assessments and delivery of our client platforms
Define, architect and break out epics/features for others, while maintaining a sense of the whole picture
Work in a cross-functional agile team to deliver working software incrementally
Help with the growth of the Cloud Practice by collaborating on the interviewing pipeline, hosting tech talks and workshops, identifying industry trends to discuss, and participating in practice activities
Mentor the less-experienced members of the team, interview potential engineers for your own and other teams, have an opportunity to help influence the direction of the project, and showcase your technical skills and knowledge in company tech talks
Research and adopt new programming languages, frameworks, and libraries to enhance development speed and security
Maintain a deep understanding of language-specific coding bugs, smells, and vulnerabilities
Continuously update code scanning profiles to minimize technical debt and ensure high-quality code.
Development Practices
Define, document, and coach the team on best practices for development, including branching strategies, peer reviews, library usage, logging, and error handling
Champion test-driven development (TDD) to maintain robust and reliable software.
Enforce coding guidelines and scanning rules across the project to ensure consistency and maintainability.
Patterns and Frameworks
Conduct technical reviews of application code and dependencies to identify anti-patterns and drive continuous refactoring
Promote the use of design patterns and architectural best practices in a microservices environment.
Technical Leadership
Design and develop microservices using hexagonal architecture principles
Build and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring secure and efficient communication
Implement and manage asynchronous messaging systems using Kafka for inter-service communication.
Database Management
Ensure secure, reliable, and efficient database interactions
Oversee schema design, query optimization, and data migration strategies
What You Bring To The Table
7+ years of professional experience in microservices-based cloud-native development within an enterprise-level domain
3+ years of experience leading teams
Strong hands-on experience architecting and implementing modern Java-based applications. Advanced features like lambda expressions, Stream API, Completable Future, Virtual Threads, Concurrency APIs etc. Java 21 experience preferred.
Experienced with implementing Microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Webflux, Starter Web, JPA, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Actuator Kafka, Redis
2+ years with AWS Experience (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, DynamoDb, Lambda)
Experience with Restful APIs and hexagonal architecture.
Knowledge of relational database systems – ex. RDS (Oracle) or Oracle on Amazon EC2
Experience using container & serverless architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS)
Proficient with Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD), including using automated test frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Cypress, WireMock, PowerMock, ArchUnit)
You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Jira).
Experienced with DevOps – creating CI/CD tools and pipelines.
Solid verbal and written communication and consultant/client-facing skills are a must. As a true consultant, you are a self-starter who takes initiative.
BHW- CBREX27529
Bounty Hunter World
Location:
ST Louis, MO, United States
Category:
Computer And Mathematical Occupations

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