Java Technical Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers, providing technical expertise and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve project goals effectively
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend applications using Java / Golang / Elixir ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and project timelines
• Architect, build and deploy backend applications from scratch
• Interact with stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze impact of changes, come up with reasonable timelines and execute
• Plan & execute extensive load testing for services
• Create an execution plan for the team to iterate based on the load test findings to ensure a resilient, self healing set of subsystems which have loose coupling and high cohesion
• Understand & analyze existing systems to identify improvements & performance / maintenance issues Fix or rebuild existing systems to ensure resilience
• Write extensive test cases in a way that systems can be easily modified in future with confidence & without ambiguity
• Build ETL pipelines to collect data in a Data lake. Use the Data lake to power BI and generate reports
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of technical specifications, code changes, and architectural decisions
• Prepare growth plan for the team and help them achieve it

Preferred candidate profile

Proven experience in leading and managing development teams, providing technical guidance and mentorship

Experience in at least one of Java, Elixir or Golang

Experience with debugging & solving issues in a cloud environment

Experience with PostgreSQL or similar database

Experience with NoSQL databases

Deepunderstanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available environment

Experience with open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc and their adoption into products

Proven experience in leading and managing development teams, providing technical guidance and mentorship

Willingness to work in a startup like environment