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Java Technical Lead

IC Markets
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Lead
3 weeks ago
JavaMicroservices ArchitectureREST API DevelopmentEvent Driven ArchitectureLow Latency SystemsCloud Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure)
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About the Role

  • We are seeking a Technical Team Lead – Java with strong hands on backend development experience, proven technical leadership capabilities, and the ability to lead and manage a full engineering team end to end.
  • The ideal candidate will come from a Fintech, Forex, Trading, or high performance systems environment, with strong experience in Java, microservices architecture, API development, backend integrations, low latency systems, and cloud based delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and guide a team of Java backend developers.
  • Take ownership of the team’s day to day execution, priorities, delivery progress, and technical output.
  • Ensure all team members have clear responsibilities, priorities, and expected deliverables.
  • Break down technical work into clear tasks and assign them effectively across the team.
  • Monitor team progress closely and proactively identify delays, risks, dependencies, and blockers.
  • Act as the first escalation point for the team and help unblock issues quickly.
  • Ensure the team is working efficiently, with clear communication and accountability.
  • Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, coaching, and continuous development of team members.
  • Promote ownership, collaboration, technical discipline, and a delivery focused mindset within the team.

Technical Leadership

  • Provide strong technical direction across backend systems, integrations, and trading related services.
  • Lead technical design discussions and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.
  • Conduct code reviews and ensure engineering standards, best practices, and clean coding principles are followed.
  • Challenge technical decisions where needed and ensure the team follows the correct architecture and implementation approach.
  • Support developers with complex technical issues and ensure the right solutions are implemented.
  • Drive technical documentation, implementation plans, and knowledge sharing across the team.
  • Ensure technical decisions are clearly communicated to Product, QA, DevOps, and other stakeholders.

Backend Architecture & Development

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java, preferably Java 17+.
  • Build and enhance microservices, REST APIs, event driven services, and backend modules for trading workflows.
  • Work on trading platform integrations, liquidity management systems, price feeds, risk engines, execution services, and internal backend tools.
  • Apply modern architecture practices such as domain driven design, CQRS, event driven architecture, and event sourcing where relevant.
  • Work with Vaadin framework for internal UI and console development where required.
  • Understand and contribute to mixed Java/Kotlin environments where applicable.
  • Collaborate with mobile teams and understand API integration requirements for iOS Swift and Android/Kotlin applications.
  • Ensure backend services are reliable, scalable, secure, and aligned with platform requirements.

System Performance, Stability & Reliability

  • Build and maintain low latency, high availability backend components.
  • Optimize system performance through concurrency tuning, JVM tuning, GC optimization, and efficient service design.
  • Support performance testing, load testing, and production readiness activities.
  • Lead or support incident investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
  • Ensure production issues are properly analyzed, documented, and followed up with preventive actions.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, Cloud, QA, and monitoring teams to improve system reliability.
  • Promote a strong engineering culture around stability, observability, and operational excellence.

Delivery & Project Ownership

  • Drive technical delivery across sprint planning, task breakdown, execution, and release readiness.
  • Work closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand requirements, clarify scope, and define realistic delivery timelines.
  • Challenge unclear requirements, incomplete analysis, or unrealistic timelines where needed.
  • Ensure technical dependencies, risks, and blockers are identified early and communicated clearly.
  • Track delivery progress and make sure the team is moving according to agreed priorities.
  • Ensure releases are delivered with the required quality, documentation, testing support, and technical sign off.
  • Maintain clear communication with Product, QA, DevOps, and management regarding status, risks, and delivery expectations.
  • Take ownership of delivery outcomes, not only technical implementation.

Cross Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Work closely with QA and QA Automation teams to support testing, integration testing, regression testing, and load testing.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud teams on deployments, CI/CD pipelines, environments, monitoring, and infrastructure needs.
  • Coordinate with Mobile teams to ensure backend APIs and services meet mobile application requirements.
  • Work with Trading, Risk, Dealing, Compliance, and Operations teams where business or system knowledge is required.
  • Ensure technical communication between teams is clear, structured, and action oriented.

Engineering Standards & Process Improvement

  • Enforce coding standards, code review practices, documentation, and technical governance.
  • Improve development processes, estimation accuracy, release readiness, and operational efficiency.
  • Identify recurring issues within the team and propose practical improvements.
  • Support the adoption of automation, AI tools, and engineering productivity improvements.
  • Encourage the team to use modern tools and practices to increase speed, quality, and maintainability.
  • Ensure the team follows agreed engineering, security, and release processes.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong hands on Java development.
  • Strong experience with Java 17+ and modern backend development practices.
  • Proven experience (2+ years) of leading a technical team (7+ members) as a team or technical lead.
  • Experience managing team delivery, task breakdown, estimation, technical planning, and execution.
  • Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
  • Experience designing and developing REST APIs and backend integrations.
  • Experience with event driven systems, messaging, and asynchronous processing.
  • Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, reliability, and production support.
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience working with DevOps teams on CI/CD, deployments, and environment management.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead with ownership, accountability, and minimal supervision.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in Forex, CFD, Fintech, Trading, Banking, or financial systems.
  • Experience with trading platform integrations, liquidity providers, price feeds, execution systems, or risk engines.
  • Knowledge of FIX Protocol and FIX Market Data.
  • Experience with price feed aggregation engines.
  • Experience with Vaadin framework.
  • Knowledge of Kotlin and mixed Java/Kotlin environments.
  • Understanding of mobile trading app architecture and backend API requirements for Swift/Kotlin applications.
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or similar.
  • Exposure to financial regulations such as FSA, DFSA, CySEC, FCA, ASIC, or similar.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud native architecture.
  • Experience using AI tools to improve development productivity, code quality, documentation, and delivery efficiency.

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