Full Stack Lead (Java and Angular)

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: 05 Days WFO

Shift: Overlap with US Eastern/Central business hours (exact timings to be confirmed)

Employment Type: Permanent

Payroll: Direct Payroll of WalkingTree Technologies

Walkingtree is hiring a Full Stack Lead (Java and Angular) to own the design and delivery of enterprise web platforms built on Java microservices and Angular microfrontends.

You will lead a team of full stack engineers, act as the technical voice to US-based stakeholders and customer teams, and stay hands-on with coding, reviews, and architecture.

The platforms you will work on are data-heavy, workflow-driven products used by operations and planning teams, including real-time dashboards, rule-based decision engines, integrations with ERP and telematics systems, and event-driven backends.

Domain knowledge will be picked up on the job; engineering depth and customer-facing maturity are what we hire for.

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership

• Own the architecture of Java (Spring Boot) microservices and Angular microfrontends, including service boundaries, API contracts, shell and remote composition, and shared design systems.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making; establish coding standards, testing strategies, and the definition of done.
• Stay hands-on by building critical components, prototyping solutions, and unblocking the team on complex technical problems.
• Drive non-functional quality, including performance, security, observability, resilience, and scalability.

2. Delivery and Team Management

• Plan sprints, break down epics, estimate work with the team, and commit to achievable delivery dates.
• Mentor engineers, conduct hiring interviews, and develop senior developers into future technical leads.
• Own CI/CD, release readiness, and production support practices in collaboration with the DevOps team.
• Track risks, dependencies, and technical debt, and raise them proactively.

3. Customer and US Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly with US-based counterparts, including product owners, architects, and program managers, during regular working-hour overlaps.
• Participate in daily or weekly calls, demos, and sprint reviews.
• Collaborate directly with customer team members to gather requirements, clarify integration points, review designs, and resolve issues.
• Present architecture, progress, and trade-offs clearly to technical and business audiences.
• Communicate status, blockers, and change requests through clear, concise written updates that US stakeholders can act on without requiring follow-up calls.

Mandatory Requirements

Candidates who do not meet the first three requirements will not be shortlisted.

1. Direct US Counterpart Exposure: At least 3 years of working regularly with US-based clients, product owners, or architects, including calls during US time-zone overlap, demos, and written status communication. Candidates must be able to describe specific engagements.
2. Direct Customer Team Collaboration: Proven experience working directly with customer engineering, QA, and business teams on requirements, integrations, UAT, and production issuesnot solely through a project manager.
3. Microservices and Microfrontends: Hands-on production experience delivering Spring Boot microservices and Angular microfrontends as a standard approach to application development, rather than a recent experiment.
4. Total Experience: 914 years of total software development experience, with at least 5 years in Java and 4 years in Angular (version 12 or later).
5. Team Leadership: At least 3 years of experience leading a team of 5 or more engineers, with ownership of design, delivery, and mentoring.
6. Communication: Strong spoken and written English suitable for customer-facing and executive-level communication.

Technical Skills

Backend

• Java 17+
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• REST APIs and OpenAPI
• JPA/Hibernate
• Asynchronous processing
• Kafka or RabbitMQ

Microservices Architecture

• Domain-driven design (DDD)
• API gateway and service discovery
• Resilience patterns, including circuit breakers, retries, and idempotency
• Saga and event-driven patterns

Frontend

• Angular 14+
• TypeScript and RxJS
• NgRx or similar state management
• Reactive forms
• Angular Material or equivalent

Microfrontends

• Module Federation or Native Federation
• Shell and remote applications
• Shared libraries and design systems
• Independent versioning and deployment

Data and Databases

• PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Query tuning and performance optimization
• Redis or other caching technologies
• Familiarity with time-series or analytical data

Integration

• ERP, telematics, and third-party REST and event integrations
• Contract-first design
• Adapter patterns

DevOps and Cloud

• Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD using Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps
• Git branching strategies and environment promotion
• AWS, Azure, or GCP fundamentals for deploying and operating containerized services

Quality Engineering

• JUnit and Mockito
• Jasmine/Jest
• Cypress or Playwright
• Contract testing
• SonarQube and static analysis

Security and Operations

• OAuth2/OIDC and JWT
• Role-based access control
• Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
• ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Good to Have

• Experience with optimization, forecasting, or rule-engine-backed products, or with map-based and real-time dashboard UIs.
• Exposure to open-source, monorepo-based platforms and multi-team release management.
• Familiarity with Python-based services consumed by Java services.
• Cloud or Kubernetes certification and experience with GitOps.
• Previous experience as a technical interface on enterprise accounts in logistics, manufacturing, or supply chain.

Behavioural Competencies

• Clear Communication: Able to explain design trade-offs to a US product owner and a customer developer.
• Ownership Mindset: Raises risks early, follows through, and takes accountability without waiting to be chased.
• Calm Under Pressure: Handles production issues with a blameless, root-cause-first approach.
• Team Development: Coaches rather than dictates and builds a team that can deliver independently without requiring the lead to participate in every review.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

Within 90 Days

• Understands the platform, customer landscape, and delivery rhythm.
• Becomes a trusted primary technical contact for US counterparts.

Within 6 Months

• Establishes and documents microservice and microfrontend standards, CI/CD practices, and review processes.
• Ensures these standards and practices are consistently followed by the team.

Within 12 Months

• Delivers more predictable releases and reduces customer escalations.
• Develops at least one engineer into a technical lead role.