Lead Java Engineer

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We re Looking For A Lead Java Engineer! Our client is a leading modern product consultancy and digital innovation firm with a mission to make a dent in the digital economy. It is currently engaged by Fortune 50 enterprises to bring their next generation of digital products and platforms to market. It has helped hundreds of teams launch mission-critical products that have created a positive impact worth billions of dollars.
What You Will Do: Lead design develop and test Web and Cloud-native applications and work with fellow Software Engineers and Product Managers to navigate the discussion and strategy in architecting web and cloud platforms
Own end-to-end architectural assessments and delivery of our client platforms
Define architect and break out epics/features for others while maintaining a sense of the whole picture
Work in a cross-functional agile team to deliver working software incrementally
Help with the growth of the Cloud Practice by collaborating on the interviewing pipeline hosting tech talks and workshops identifying industry trends to discuss and participating in practice activities
Mentor the less-experienced members of the team interview potential engineers for your own and other teams have an opportunity to help influence the direction of the project and showcase your technical skills and knowledge in company tech talks
Research and adopt new programming languages frameworks and libraries to enhance development speed and security
Maintain a deep understanding of language-specific coding bugs smells and vulnerabilities
Continuously update code scanning profiles to minimize technical debt and ensure high-quality code.
Development Practices Define document and coach the team on best practices for development including branching strategies peer reviews library usage logging and error handling
Champion test-driven development (TDD) to maintain robust and reliable software.
Enforce coding guidelines and scanning rules across the project to ensure consistency and maintainability. Patterns and Frameworks Conduct technical reviews of application code and dependencies to identify anti-patterns and drive continuous refactoring
Promote the use of design patterns and architectural best practices in a microservices environment. Technical Leadership Design and develop microservices using hexagonal architecture principles
Build and maintain RESTful APIs ensuring secure and efficient communication
Implement and manage asynchronous messaging systems using Kafka for inter-service communication. Database Management Ensure secure reliable and efficient database interactions
Oversee schema design query optimization and data migration strategies
What You Bring To The Table: 7 years of professional experience in microservices-based cloud-native development within an enterprise-level domain
3 years of experience leading teams
Strong hands-on experience architecting and implementing modern Java-based applications. Advanced features like lambda expressions Stream API CompletableFuture Virtual Threads Concurrency APIs etc. Java 21 experience preferred.
Experienced with implementing Microservices using Spring Boot Spring Webflux Starter Web JPA Spring Security Spring Boot Actuator Kafka Redis
2 years with AWS Experience (EKS EC2 S3 RDS SQS SNS DynamoDb Lambda)
Experience with Restful APIs and hexagonal architecture.
Knowledge of relational database systems ex. RDS (Oracle) or Oracle on Amazon EC2
Experience using container & serverless architectures (Docker Kubernetes AWS Lambda AWS ECS)
Proficient with Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD) including using automated test frameworks (e.g. JUnit Cypress WireMock PowerMock ArchUnit)
You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g. Jira).
Experienced with DevOps creating CI/CD tools and pipelines.
Solid verbal and written communication and consultant/client-facing skills are a must. As a true consultant you are a self-starter who takes initiative.
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St. Louis
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