Fullstack Developer Lead

About Vericence

Vericence is a digital engineering and technology consulting firm helping enterprises build AI-driven platforms, modernize legacy systems, and scale innovation through cloud, data, and intelligent engineering. We partner with global organizations to deliver high-impact technology solutions and build world-class engineering teams.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Java Full Stack Developer to design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise applications. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise across both backend and frontend development, along with experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring developers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable full-stack applications using Java and modern frontend technologies.
• Develop robust backend services and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and REST APIs.
• Build responsive and user-friendly frontend applications using React.js, Angular, or similar frameworks.
• Design and implement scalable microservices and distributed application architectures.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs with frontend applications and enterprise systems.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases, including database design, queries, performance tuning, and data modeling.
• Implement application security, authentication, authorization, and secure coding practices.
• Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and contribute to technology decisions.
• Lead development activities, conduct code reviews, and establish coding and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers and provide technical guidance to the development team.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and business stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation, cloud deployments, monitoring, and application performance optimization.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and support estimation, planning, and delivery activities.

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of experience in software/application development.
• Strong proficiency in Java 8/11/17+ and object-oriented programming.
• Extensive experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Spring Framework.
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with React.js, Angular, or similar modern frontend frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar is a plus.
• Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, design patterns, and application architecture.
• Experience with Git, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or OCI.
• Experience with messaging/event-driven technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent is preferred.

Senior/Lead-Level Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guide the team in designing and implementing complex solutions.
• Review architecture, code, and technical designs to ensure scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Break down complex requirements into technical tasks and provide development estimates.
• Identify technical risks and proactively recommend solutions.
• Mentor team members and promote engineering best practices.
• Work closely with architects and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing cloud-native and enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with Spring Cloud, API Gateway, service discovery, and distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, and cloud automation.
• Experience with application performance monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.