Lead Java Developer

Skills & Experience Required:

Successful Candidates must demonstrate an appropriate combination of:

• 6 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 3+ years of experience as a Staff or lead software engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM field.
• A portfolio of thought leadership and individual technical accomplishments.
• Full understanding of Agile software development methodologies and practices.
• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written.
• Extensive experience working with technologies and concepts such as:

• Behaviour-driven or test-driven development
• JVM-based languages such as Java and Scala
• Development frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Asynchronous programming concepts, including Event processing.
• Database technologies such as SQL, Postgres/MySQL, AWS Aurora DBs, Redshift, Liquibase or Flyway.
• No-SQL technologies such as Redis, MongoDB and Cassandra
• Streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark or Amazon Kinesis
• Unit-testing frameworks such as jUnit.
• Performance testing frameworks such as Gatling.
• Architectural concepts such as micro-services and separation of concerns.
• Expert knowledge of class-based, object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Development tools such as GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, Concourse, and Maven.
• Cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure.