Senior Java Backend Engineer & Technical Lead

As a Senior Java Backend Engineer & Team Lead, you will be responsible for designing and delivering secure, distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant services, end-user applications, and APIs. You will have the opportunity to leverage your engineering expertise and leadership skills in delivering cloud-hosted (AWS) SaaS systems. Your role will involve working on complex, event-driven services following agile engineering practices with a strong emphasis on automation. Your passion for technology and SaaS products, combined with a focus on code quality, scalability, latency, and platform stability will be crucial in this role. Responsibilities: - Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to refine requirements, propose technical solutions, and provide accurate estimates - Translate requirements into efficient and high-quality implementations - Take ownership of implemented solutions and actively support them from proof of concept to production deployment - Emphasize not only development but also running software in production by defining monitoring/alerting specifications and enhancing observability and traceability of all production flows - Mentor junior team members and establish yourself as a subject matter expert on all aspects of the product you contribute to - Participate in code reviews and other activities to ensure the quality of Engage products Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience - 9+ years of experience in engineering software development focusing on building backend services and APIs - Proven track record in delivering event-driven, highly available, scalable, and resilient enterprise-grade commercial cloud services - Proficiency in Java application development with advanced knowledge of Java Core, Collections, Multithreading, Java Memory Model, and Garbage collection - Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven system design, distributed systems, and eventual consistency principles - Experience in developing REST services, including knowledge of the REST manifesto, stateful/stateless services, and load balancing strategies - Strong skills in RDBMS, including writing advanced queries, designing table structures/indexes/triggers, and query optimization/query plan analysis Additional Details: - Experience with at least one public cloud platform, preferably AWS - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8S), including kubectl, K8S types, and Helm - Hands-on experience with Big Data technologies - Familiarity with cloud-based CI/CD methodologies - Experience deploying applications using Kubernetes - Experience working with Kafka or other messaging queues As a Senior Java Backend Engineer & Team Lead, you will be responsible for designing and delivering secure, distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant services, end-user applications, and APIs. You will have the opportunity to leverage your engineering expertise and leadership skills in delivering cloud-hosted (AWS) SaaS systems. Your role will involve working on complex, event-driven services following agile engineering practices with a strong emphasis on automation. Your passion for technology and SaaS products, combined with a focus on code quality, scalability, latency, and platform stability will be crucial in this role. Responsibilities: - Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to refine requirements, propose technical solutions, and provide accurate estimates - Translate requirements into efficient and high-quality implementations - Take ownership of implemented solutions and actively support them from proof of concept to production deployment - Emphasize not only development but also running software in production by defining monitoring/alerting specifications and enhancing observability and traceability of all production flows - Mentor junior team members and establish yourself as a subject matter expert on all aspects of the product you contribute to - Participate in code reviews and other activities to ensure the quality of Engage products Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience - 9+ years of experience in engineering software development focusing on building backend services and APIs - Proven track record in delivering event-driven, highly available, scalable, and resilient enterprise-grade commercial cloud services - Proficiency in Java application development with advanced knowledge of Java Core, Collections, Multithreading, Java Memory Model, and Garbage collection - Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven system design, distributed systems, and eventual consistency principles - Experience in developing REST services, including knowledge of the REST manifesto, stateful/stateless services, and load balancing strategies - Strong skills in RDBMS, including writing advanced queries, designing table structures/indexes/triggers, and qu