Role and Responsibilities:
As a member of our development team, the Java Technical Lead will design and develop high volume, low latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability. You will support web-based application development and maintenance and contribute to and grow our software engineering competency. The Java Technical Lead must have broad experience in web application development. The Java Technical Lead provides input and support for and performs full systems life cycle management activities (e.g., analysis, technical requirements, design, coding, testing, implementation, etc.) of application software. This position collaborates with teams and supports emerging technologies to ensure effective communication and achievement of objectives. This position provides knowledge and support for applications development, and integration and maintenance. The selected candidate must have excellent communication skills and strong organizational skills, be able to meet deadlines, as well as interact effectively with other developers, and management.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
• End-to-end responsibility for projects of increasing complexity that encompass more than their own development
• Be independent with little oversight beyond high level direction, works on complex tasks and completes them despite roadblocks, including debugging techniques
• Help large groups of engineers deliver complex projects with drama-free launches, owning the technical testing and performance planning side of these projects
• Deliver software on-time and improve the accuracy of team's estimations
• Understand the business that their code supports, and possess empathy for the users of their software, using this understanding to influence their task prioritization
• Understand the tradeoffs between technical, analytical and product goals, and strive to create solutions that satisfy all the business goals
• Write consistently high-quality code, deliver features to QA that they believe are well-baked and bug-free, being aware of industry best practices and trends
• Be known outside of their core team as a technology leader, working effectively with non-tech members of their pillar. Ability to identify problems with requirements and help their team course-correct around these issues
• Research and propose new technologies, and have a broad understanding of the entire architecture, as well as very detailed understanding of their area
• Proactively identify and clean up technical debt before it turns into a long-term problem, and encourage and enable their team to do the same
• Identify risks in code, features, and design, and communicate these to the appropriate parties
• Participate in architecture designs providing feedback and providing designs with guidance from the architecture team, as appropriate
• Ability to identify and suggest areas of future work for themselves and others while contributing to the common standards for the team
• Balance leadership and individual contribution by providing extensive mentoring of junior team members while maintaining deep individual contribution
• Seek evidence to support their ideas and start to build cases for these ideas
• Support deployment releases as needed and maintain the application once it's in production
QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Expert in Java and Enterprise Java technologies and development
• Expert in the Spring framework (Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, etc)
• Expert in designing and implementing RESTful web services
• Expert building web applications from the ground up
• Experience converting business requirements into technical design documents
• Ability to write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Knowledge of or working experience with CI/CD pipelines; including technologies such as Docker, Jenkins/Concourse
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as GCP
• Agile (scrum) based delivery practices, test driven development, test automation, and continuous delivery
• Solid understanding of object-oriented principles
• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Experience with Oauth2
• Solid understanding of hibernate
• Solid understanding of microservices
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and NoSQL
• Experience with maven and gradle
• Experience with Netty
• Proven experience with messaging technologies, including but not limited to queues, topics, publisher/subscriber patterns, and brokers."
• Proficient in using Git for version control and mastering the Gitflow workflow
• Spanish: Native
• English: Excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English