Senior Lead Java Backend Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise-grade Java services.
• Define standards for APIs, service boundaries, coding, secure development, automated testing, logging, exception handling, and
  operational readiness.
• Select appropriate synchronous, asynchronous, and reactive patterns for business-processing workloads.
• Lead design and code reviews and ensure non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, reliability, resilience, security, and
  observability are addressed.
• Diagnose memory leaks, thread contention, connection-pool exhaustion, high CPU, API latency, slow SQL, and service scalability
  issues.
• Analyze heap dumps, thread dumps, GC logs, JVM metrics, database plans, and connection-pool behavior.
• Lead root-cause analysis for critical incidents and drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Mentor engineers and communicate delivery progress, risks, dependencies, impact, mitigation, and decisions to stakeholders and
  management.

Required Technical Skills

• Advanced Core Java and Java 8 through Java 17.
• Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Spring JDBC, Spring AOP, and CompletableFuture.
• Multithreading, concurrency, JVM internals, asynchronous and reactive programming.
• REST APIs, microservices, API lifecycle, integration patterns, and secure coding.
• JUnit, Mockito, automated integration testing, GitHub, pull requests, and CI/CD.
• Dynatrace; exposure to Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Linux/Unix, Apache Tomcat, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-platform concepts.
• Strong SQL and Data Capabilities
• Strong hands-on SQL capability is mandatory, including complex joins, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, stored procedures,
  transaction handling, indexing, execution-plan analysis, query optimization, data reconciliation, and troubleshooting of high-volume relational workloads.
• The candidate must be able to review data models and guide database performance decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, investment operations, accounting, reconciliation, or asset servicing.
• Experience modernizing legacy or mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Exposure to AS400/IBM i and DB2.
• Azure or AWS experience; Docker and Kubernetes exposure.

Technology Stack

Java 8-17 | Spring Boot | WebFlux | Spring JDBC | Spring AOP | REST | Microservices | SQL | DB2 | Dynatrace | GitHub | CI/CD | Linux |
Tomcat | Docker | Kubernetes | Azure