Lead Java Developer

Job Summary 

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead - Go/Java with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

·                Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members. 

·                Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications 

·                Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development 

·                Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies. 

·                Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions. 

·                Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability. 

·                Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance. 

·                Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes to technical planning. 

·                Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes. 

·                Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues 

·                Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards 

·                Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team 

·                Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems 

·                Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas 

·                Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents 

·                Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies. 

Job Qualifications 

Professional and Technical Skills: 

·                Design and implement microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) in Go/Java with clean, testable architecture. 

·                Write efficient, concurrent code using goroutines, channels, and the context package; manage timeouts/cancellation. 

·                Own service quality: unit/integration tests, benchmarks, profiling, and race detection. 

·                Integrate with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis caching and messaging Kafka/RabbitMQ. 

·                Build and ship via Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins); automate deploys and rollbacks. 

·                Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry; drive SLOs and incident RCA. 

·                Ensure security basics: TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, input validation, dependency hygiene (Go modules). 

·                Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. 

·                Experience with Code management tools. 

·                Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms.