Lead Software Engineer

8 - 12 years

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Job Description

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Java, Kafka Streaming, AWS, Distributed Data Systems)

Experience: 812+ years

Role Type: Lead Engineer

Role Overview

Lead Software Engineer

In this role, you will provide technical leadership, design scalable architectures, mentor engineers, and drive high-quality delivery across mission-critical data and streaming platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

  • Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance backend services using Java/Spring Boot.
  • Architect real-time streaming solutions based on

    Apache Kafka

    , including producers, consumers, stream processing, and event-driven microservices.
  • Ensure strong data modeling and optimal usage of relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Drive engineering best practices: code quality, design reviews, CI/CD, observability, and performance optimization.

Backend & Streaming System Development

  • Build microservices and distributed systems with strong APIs (REST or gRPC).
  • Implement event-driven architectures, streaming ETL, and stateful stream processing.
  • Design and maintain Kafka infrastructure (topics, partitions, schemas, offset management).
  • Ensure data consistency, idempotency, and scalability across services.

Data Engineering & Storage

  • Collaborate with data engineering teams to design and optimize pipelines.
  • Work with large datasets using relational & NoSQL stores (MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, HBase, Aerospike, etc.).
  • Integrate data pipelines with backend services, ensuring high throughput and reliability.

Cloud & DevOps

  • Build and deploy services on AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS).
  • Implement observability using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana.
  • Work with Docker/Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
  • Optimize infrastructure cost, performance, resilience, and scalability.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

  • Mentor and guide engineers in architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
  • Facilitate technical discussions, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and cross-team coordination.
  • Work closely with Product, Data, and DevOps teams to translate requirements into system designs.
  • Take end-to-end ownership from design ? development ? deployment ? monitoring.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Skills

  • 812+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency in

    Java

    (Collections, Concurrency, Streams, Spring Boot).
  • Deep experience with

    Apache Kafka

    (core, Streams, Connect).
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and streaming guarantees.
  • Experience with

    AWS cloud services

    (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS).
  • Solid experience in

    SQL and relational databases

    (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
  • Familiarity with

    microservices design

    , API best practices, and system decomposition.
  • Experience in performance tuning, memory optimization, and high-throughput system design.

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with

    HBase

    ,

    Aerospike

    , or similar NoSQL key-value/columnar stores.
  • Exposure to

    Spark, Flink, or streaming ETL frameworks

    .
  • Knowledge of

    Terraform or IaC tools

    .
  • Experience with

    monitoring and alerting systems

    .

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