Project Manager (Java)

Role Overview

Roughly 60% leadership and delivery, 40% technical depth (design reviews, architecture, selective code review).

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership

• Lead, coach and grow a team of 1015 Java engineers across experience levels.
• Run regular 1:1s, set clear goals, and deliver honest, timely performance feedback.
• Own hiring for the team: screening, interviewing, closing candidates, and onboarding.
• Build career development plans and identify growth paths, including promotion cases.
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Delivery & Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery of the team's roadmap scoping, planning, estimation and release.
• Partner with Product, Design, QA and DevOps to translate business goals into technical plans.
• Track and improve delivery health: cycle time, escaped defects, sprint predictability.
• Manage risks and dependencies proactively; escalate early with options, not just problems.
• Drive Agile/Scrum ceremonies and continuously refine the team's engineering process.

Technical Stewardship

• Guide architecture and design decisions for Java/Spring Boot microservices at scale.
• Uphold engineering standards: code quality, test coverage, CI/CD, observability, security.
• Participate in design and code reviews; resolve deep technical disagreements.
• Own technical debt strategy and balance it against feature delivery.
• Ensure production readiness — on-call health, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 13+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years directly managing engineering teams.
• Deep hands-on background in Java (8/11/17/21+), Spring Boot, and the JVM ecosystem.
• Strong grounding in microservices architecture, RESTful API design and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis).
• Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and high-throughput systems.
• Exposure to performance tuning, JVM profiling and large-scale system migrations.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP), Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern observability tooling.
• Proven track record of shipping complex projects on time in a cross-functional setting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Advantage

• Background in a regulated or high-availability domain (like fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, CPaaS Company).

Core Competencies

• Technical judgment and architectural thinking
• Coaching and talent development
• Stakeholder management and influence without authority
• Decision-making under ambiguity
• Bias for ownership and accountability