Lead Software Engineer

Principal Global Services

8 - 13 years

25 - 30 Lacs

pune

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maven git networking test strategy spring batch analytical performance testing agile monitoring sql

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Responsibilities Experience: 8+ years Role Overview Seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer (Java & AWS) to design and deliver cloud-native platforms with Java as the primary stack and AWS as secondary
Emphasis on technical depth, mentorship, driving projects, and crisp stakeholder communication
Key Responsibilities Architecture & Cloud Design: Define service/data architectures, select AWS services/patterns (serverless vs
containers) for scale, resilience, security, and cost
Build & Delivery: Implement Java/Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, manage API lifecycle (versioning/deprecation), ensure operational readiness
Quality & Reliability: Establish test strategy (unit / integration / contract / performance) , implement resilience patterns and caching, enforce CI quality gates
Security & Compliance: Implement OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, encryption, align to org policy and regulatory standards
Observability & Cost: Implement logs/metrics/traces, define SLIs/SLOs, alerts, dashboards, design for right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor engineers, communicate options/trade-offs/risks clearly with Product / Architecture / SRE / Security
Facilitate agile ceremonies : (stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, retros) with a focus on technical outcomes, risk surfacing, and sprint goal clarity
Refine stories into actionable technical tasks: ensure Definition of Ready/Done, unambiguous acceptance criteria, testability, and accurate story point estimation
Qualifications Must-Have Skills Java (Primary) Java / Java 8+: OOP & SOLID, Streams, Optional, functional interfaces, lambda expressions
Concurrency: Thread pools, Future/CompletableFuture, synchronization, locks, concurrent collections, Java Memory Model, heap/stack, GC insights
Web & API: RESTful design (idempotency, pagination, error models), rate limiting, API gateway concepts, Swagger/OpenAPI
Spring: Spring Core (IoC/DI), Spring MVC, Spring Boot (auto-config/starter deps), Spring Security (JWT/OAuth2), Spring Batch, Spring AOP
Architecture & Patterns: Event-driven design (MQ/queueing), patterns Factory, Builder, Strategy, Template
Data & Testing: Strong SQL, , JUnit 5/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract & performance testing
Tooling & Observability: Maven/Gradle, Git, CI/CD, logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry)
AWS (Secondary) Core: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS/Fargate, monitoring with CloudWatch/X-Ray, auditing with CloudTrail
Security & Networking: IAM (least privilege), KMS, VPC (subnets, SGs/NACLs), Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, basic WAF
IaC & Deployments: AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred) or Terraform/CloudFormation, blue/green, canary, feature flags, zero-downtime deployments
Reliability & Cost: Autoscaling, throttling, DLQs, retries/backoff, cost-aware designs (right-sizing, storage tiers, DynamoDB capacity models)
--- Good to Have Step Functions, Kinesis/MSK, ElastiCache, OpenSearch
Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps-friendly workflows
Chaos testing and DR strategies, multi-account landing zone familiarity
--- Soft Skills Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and bias for action
Plans, prioritizes, and communicates effectively across teams and time zones
Mentors teammates, provides clear, constructive feedback
Demonstrates ownership, raises the bar, and consistently exceeds day-to-day expectations
Identifies ambiguity/risks and proactively drives clarity and resolution with stakeholders

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