Lead Java Engineer

About the company:

Avenue Code is the leading software consultancy focused on delivering end-to-end development solutions for digital transformation across every vertical. We're privately held, profitable, and have been on a solid growth trajectory since day one. We care deeply about our clients, our partners, and our people. We prefer the word partner over vendor, and our investment in professional relationships is a reflection of that philosophy. We pride ourselves on our technical acumen, our collaborative problem-solving ability, and the warm professionalism of our teams.

Avenue Code has been believing in and promoting plurality actions for over 10 years, understanding that recognizing differences and fostering a safe environment, employment opportunities, representation, and support are the best ways to promote an increasingly equitable culture.

About the opportunity:

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Java Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on expertise to architect, design, and lead development of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have deep proficiency in modern Java technologies, distributed systems, and Microservices, with a strong background in Supply Chain Order Management domain.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, who can learn on the job. They exhibit situational leadership, work collaboratively within a team, and motivate others to achieve business objectives. They should possess excellent analytical skills along with the ability to translate business requirements and opportunities into clear, precise and easy-to-read technical and functional specifications. They should have excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with both business stakeholders and technical teams.

Must Have Skills:

Java 17+

- Extensive experience implementing Design Patterns, SOLID Principles and various Microservice Patterns

- Strong experience with Spring Boot and Microservice Architecture

- Proficient in Kafka

- Hands-on with Cassandra and Solr

- Experience with Oracle or MySQL

- Experience with CI (Continuous Integration) methodologies and Tools

- Hands-on experience with AppD, ELK, Grafana - including alerts and notification setup

- Unit testing with Junit and Mockito

Nice to Have:

- Experience using Elasticsearch for transactional data storage

- Experience with Spring WebFlux to build synchronous and asynchronous Microservices

Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Specific Responsibilities

Authors, reviews and approves technical designs

Mastery of domain programming language

Engineers extensible solutions with the team in mind and can fix complex bugs

Reviews code to ensure it is functionally correct and consistent with the technical design

Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths

Accountable for complex stories and integration or business requirements

Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths

Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines

Defines useful metrics and targets for domain

Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals

Innovates measurable improvements

Stabilizes emerging technologies

Achieves team consent and buy-in

Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers

Sphere of influence is scrum or project development team

Actively shares through peer mentoring, shared resources and informal teachings

Teaches and mentors within team

Contributes and enforces best practices

Inspires teamwork and gently guides the Agile/project team

Assists in career development plans for engineers

Provides guidance for the work performed by contractors and delegates work

Assesses the quality of work and effectiveness of contractors

Participates in development of contractor agreements, including deliverables and SLAs

Avenue Code reinforces its commitment to privacy and to all the principles guaranteed by the most accurate global data protection laws, such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA and CPRA. The Candidate data shared with Avenue Code will be kept confidential and will not be transmitted to disinterested third parties, nor will it be used for purposes other than the application for open positions. As a Consultancy company, Avenue Code may share your information with its clients and other Companies from the CompassUol Group to which Avenue Code's consultants are allocated to perform its services.