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Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your team and across the organization on Java microservice development and best practices Build a capable team with strong leadership through effective headcount planning, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and continuous improvement Motivate and influence teams to buy into team vision and quarterly roadmap, pushing individuals outside of their comfort zones where necessary Be responsible for owning features developed by your team in each phase of a project - design, implementation, code review, QA and deployment to production Flex your strength and knowledge on Java, DevOps, and microservice development. Ensure services are built to industry best practices, including observability, architectural patterns, and inter-team dependency mechanisms (like SLOs) Work closely with architects and other teams across Storefront to breakdown an existing PHP monolith into well defined Java Microservices with clean boundaries and clear API contracts Obsessively focus on production readiness for the team including testing, monitoring, deployment, documentation, and proactive troubleshooting Break down complex initiatives into concrete iterative pieces Seek out, define, and evolve best practices within teams area of focus as well as initiatives that raise the standards across the organization Provide visibility into team results and bottlenecks, and drive data-driven action plans Work within an Agile culture to foster continuous improvement at the team and departmental level Proven success in mentoring junior engineers to improve standards and reduce defects in dynamic environments We Are a Match Because You Have: 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a preference for candidates with a mix of start-up and large-company experience eComm domain expertise is a bonus Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments at scale Mastery in cross-functional consensus building and influencing without given authority Experienced in architecting and building large-scale, cloud-based, and event-driven systems across various projects Successful background in designing production systems at scale including fault tolerance, reliability, performance, and security Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience driving teams forward and ability to influence results GCP target cloud platform, experience with AWS/Azure at scale Distributed microservice architectures with well architected domain boundaries High volume async messaging architectures Large scale relational and NoSQL style data stores Deep understanding of data processing and data pipelines. Common open source platforms, tools and framework, eg: Kafka, Kubernetes, Containerization, Java microservices, GraphQL APIs, Aerospike etc
