Lead Core Java Developer

 

Roles and Responsibilities: 
• Core Java & Backend Development 
• API Development 
• Frameworks & Libraries 
• Database & SQL 

 

Must Have Technical Skills: 
• 5+ years of hands on Java development experience 
• Strong proficiency in Java (Java 8+) 
• Solid understanding of: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Design patterns (Factory, Singleton, DAO, etc.), & Exception handling, multithreading, and collections
• Experience building scalable, maintainable backend services 
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs 
• Hands on with Spring Boot / Spring MVC 
• API design best practices: HTTP methods, status codes, Request/response validation, Versioning strategies 
• Experience with JSON, request serialization/deserialization 
• Familiarity with API documentation tools (Swagger / OpenAPI) 
• API testing using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar 
• Spring Framework (Core, Boot, MVC) 
• Data Power 
• ORM frameworks such as: Hibernate / JPA 
• Experience with Microservices architecture is strongly preferred 
• Strong hands on experience with SQL 
• Experience with relational databases such as: Oracle or Teradata DevOps 
• Experience with Maven / Gradle 
• Version control using Git/bitbucket 
• CI/CD exposure (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, udeploy etc.)
• Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix environments 

 

Flex Skills/Nice to Have: 
• Experience deploying applications on: Application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, etc.) & Containers (Docker – preferred) 
• Ability to write and optimize: Complex joins, Subqueries, Stored procedures (nice to have) 
• Dependency Injection and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)