Lead Backend Engineer - Java

About Zwayam

Reasons why you should work with us:

Your Opportunity:

• Hands-on Coding & Code Review: Actively participate in coding and code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization.
• High-Level and Low-Level Design: Create comprehensive architectural documentation that guides the development team and ensures the scalability and security of the system.
• Security Best Practices: Implement security strategies, including data encryption, access control, and threat detection, ensuring the platform adheres to the highest security standards.
• Compliance Management: Oversee compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR, including data protection, retention policies, and audit readiness.
• Scalability & Performance Optimization: Ensure the system architecture can scale seamlessly and optimize performance as business needs grow.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Set up real-time monitoring and alerting systems to ensure proactive identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks, security threats, and system failures.
• Cross-Platform Deployment: Architect flexible, cloud-agnostic solutions and manage deployments on Azure and AWS platforms.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Use Kubernetes and Docker Swarm for container management and orchestration to achieve a high degree of automation and reliability in deployments.
• Data Management: Manage database architecture using MySQL, MongoDB and ElasticSearch to ensure efficient storage, retrieval, and management of data.
• Message Queuing Systems: Design and manage asynchronous communication using Kafka and Redis for event-driven architecture.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Mentoring & Team Leadership: Mentor, guide, and lead the engineering team, fostering technical growth and maintaining adherence to architectural and coding standards.

Work Location

Experience:

Technical Expertise:

• Proficient in Java and related frameworks like Spring-boot
• Experience with databases like MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and message queuing systems like Kafka, Redis.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes. • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) and alerting systems for real-time issue detection and resolution.

Compliance & Security:

• Hands-on experience in implementing security best practices.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as GDPR and DPDP

Problem-Solving:

Our Ideal Candidate: