Lead Software Engineer - Java

Experience: 10+ Years IT / 7+ Years Java Development
Domain: Banking / Financial Services
Location: phoenix, A

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer – Java to lead the design, development, modernization, and delivery of scalable enterprise applications within a large banking environment.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Cloud, SQL/NoSQL, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD, along with proven experience providing technical leadership across complex enterprise applications.

The Lead Engineer will remain hands-on while providing technical direction, establishing engineering standards, conducting code/design reviews, mentoring developers, and partnering with architecture, product, security, DevOps, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, and implementation of enterprise applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Design and develop scalable microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the complete software development lifecycle.
• Define application architecture, engineering standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Design highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable solutions for business-critical banking applications.
• Develop and integrate APIs with internal banking platforms and third-party systems.
• Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Work with relational and NoSQL databases and optimize application/database performance.
• Build and deploy applications in AWS or other enterprise cloud environments.
• Develop containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or equivalent platforms.
• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to coding, security, performance, and architecture standards.
• Troubleshoot complex application and production issues and lead root-cause analysis.
• Implement application monitoring, logging, observability, and production-support practices.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts, QA, Security, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
• Mentor software engineers and provide technical guidance to onsite and offshore development teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, estimation, planning, dependency management, and release activities.
• Ensure applications meet banking requirements around security, resiliency, data protection, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive modernization of legacy applications toward cloud-native, API-first, and microservices-based architectures.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Java 11/17/21
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot and Spring Framework
• Strong experience designing and developing Microservices
• Strong REST API / Web Services development experience
• Experience with Kafka / event-driven architecture / messaging
• Strong experience with SQL and relational databases
• Experience with AWS / Cloud-native development
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with JPA/Hibernate
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and object-oriented design
• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with unit/integration testing frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito
• Experience with application monitoring, logging, and observability
• Strong understanding of secure coding and application security
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum engineering teams