Java Engineering Lead

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 15 or more years of hands-on design and development experience, with deep Java expertise and a demonstrable commitment to clean code and SOLID engineering principles.
• Practical experience building medium to large-scale applications using Spring Boot, Microservices, and Kafka on open-source technology stacks.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and a strong grasp of data modelling and persistence patterns within distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design and build resilient, high-availability architectures that perform reliably under real-world, high-throughput conditions.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and single-click deployment workflows, with familiarity across tooling such as Tekton, Harness, Lightspeed, or OpenShift.
• Fluency in test-driven and behaviour-driven development practices, including writing unit and integration tests using JUnit and standard testing frameworks.
• An active practitioner of AI tools and generative AI technologies, applying them to drive engineering productivity and delivery efficiency.
• Clear, confident communicator who can articulate technical decisions and surface delivery risks effectively to both engineering and non-technical audiences.

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

• Experience authoring functional and technical specification documentation to a standard that enables independent implementation by distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with site reliability engineering principles and a genuine interest in how reliability engineering shapes product development outcomes.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• A master's degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification in a relevant technical field.
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