Role - Java Lead Engineer -- S SDC5832069
Location: Chicago, IL
Hybrid work model ( 2x a week)
Experience: Minimum 10yrs of exp needed
Interview Mode: Via Teams with Video ON, 3 sets of technical interviews, including 1 coding interview, 1 architecture interview and 1 team interview (behavioral); 3 separate interviews.
Looking for candidates local to Chicago, IL
Job description:
Seeking a Java Lead Engineer with 10+ years of experience in backend application development. Strong expertise in Java 17, Spring Boot, REST APIs, AWS services (IAM, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, KMS), SQL, and DevOps is required. The candidate will lead development efforts, mentor junior engineers, contribute to architecture and design decisions, and build highly available, scalable cloud-based solutions. Experience with system design, technical leadership, and enterprise application development is essential
Skills Required:
- 10+ years of Java development experience
- Strong Java 17 and Spring Boot skills
- Expertise in backend development (not frontend/full-stack)
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices
- Strong AWS knowledge, especially IAM, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, and KMS
- Good understanding of SQL and DevOps practices
- Experience designing highly available and scalable systems
- Some architecture/system design experience
- Ability to lead developers, mentor junior team members, and drive technical decisions
Job Description:
- Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
- Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
- Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
- Mentors junior developers.
- Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
- Leads development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams
- Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results
- Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
- Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
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