Lead Java Full stack Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer (Java & UI) at our company, your role will involve designing and delivering end-to-end platforms with Java as the primary focus and modern UI as secondary. Your responsibilities will include technical delivery, mentorship, ensuring quality, performance optimization, and effective communication with stakeholders. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Full-Stack Architecture:** Define clean boundaries between Java microservices and React/TypeScript/Next.js frontends, standardize API contracts, and BFF patterns. - **Build & Delivery:** Implement domain services and REST APIs in Java, contribute to critical UI workflows when needed. - **Quality & Testing:** Apply test pyramids across tiers, enforce API/UI contract tests, and ensure quality assurance. - **Performance & Security:** Optimize performance metrics, apply security measures like OAuth2/JWT, and ensure system resilience. - **Observability:** Implement logs, metrics, and traces across BE & FE for error tracking and release health monitoring. - **Mentorship & Collaboration:** Mentor engineers, promote reuse of shared components, and align on scope with other teams. - **Agile Ceremonies:** Facilitate agile ceremonies with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity. - **Refine Stories:** Refine stories into actionable technical tasks with clear acceptance criteria and accurate estimation. **Qualifications:** **Must-Have Skills:** - **Java (Primary):** Strong proficiency in Java 8+ with knowledge of OOP & SOLID principles, functional interfaces, and lambda expressions. - **Concurrency:** Experience with thread pools, synchronization, Java Memory Model, etc. - **Web & API:** Familiarity with RESTful design, API gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, etc. - **Spring:** Knowledge of Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security, and other related modules. - **Architecture & Patterns:** Understanding of event-driven design, design patterns like Factory, Builder, etc. - **Data/Testing/Tooling:** Proficiency in SQL, Redis, testing frameworks like JUnit/Mockito, build tools like Maven/Gradle, etc. **UI (Secondary 20-30%):** - **React + TypeScript + Next.js:** Experience in component-driven development, state management, routing, etc. - **Performance & Accessibility:** Familiarity with Core Web Vitals, caching, accessibility practices, etc. - **Security & Testing:** Knowledge of security measures, testing frameworks like Jest, RTL, etc. - **Integration:** Ability to consume Java APIs, handle auth flows, and error handling. **Good to Have:** - Experience with design systems, messaging/eventing, containers, and orchestration basics. **Soft Skills:** - Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. - Effective communication and prioritization abilities. - Mentorship capabilities and ownership mindset. - Proactive in driving clarity and resolution with stakeholders.,