Lead Java Developer

Job Title - Lead Java Developer Specialist - ACS Song

Management Level: Level 9 - Specialist

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Java, Spring Boot, E-Commerce Platforms

Good to have skills: Agile Project Management

Experience: 5-8 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead Java Developer with 58 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members.
• Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications
• Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development
• Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies.
• Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions.
• Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance.
• Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes to technical planning.
• Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes.
• Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues
• Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards
• Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team
• Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems
• Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas
• Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents
• Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies.

Qualification

Professional and Technical Skills:

• Strong development skills in Java 11 or above.
• Should have strong acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/Analytical skills.
• Hands-on experience with Spring , Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks.
• Thorough understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different types of Design patterns.
• Sound understanding of concepts like Exception handling, Serialization/Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc.
• Good fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Autoboxing, etc.
• Experience with Multi-threading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NoSQL databases and writing SQL queries
• Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices
• Familiar with CI/CD pipeline
• Good understanding of any of the cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience in using code quality tools like Sonarqube
• Experience with Code management tools.
• Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms.

Additional Information

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