Java Lead

Role: Lead Senior Java  Engineer - Sustainment

Location Onsite Orlando  FL 4 days week

Long Term Contract

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Excellent comm skills required

Job Summary: 

We are looking for a Lead JavaSoftware Engineer who is passionate about developing high performance platforms.To be successful in this role, you need effective communication and collaboration skills,a passion for learning and trying new things, and a strong foundational understanding of programming and computer science.As a member of our team, you will apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software. 

Responsibilities 

Responsibilities 

• Lead and coordinate the resolution of critical production incidents, ensuring timely service restoration and minimal business impact. 

• Act as the primary point of contact for production incidents, collaborating with client technical leads, developers, architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders. 

• Drive incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. 

• Proactively monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance, stability, and reliability of cloud-hosted applications. 

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues involving Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure. 

• Collaborate with development teams and solution architects to identify performance bottlenecks and implement application improvements. 

• Participate in daily stand-ups, technical discussions, architecture reviews, and other Agile/Scrum ceremonies. 

• Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and production support of scalable microservices in a cloud environment. 

• Leverage application monitoring and observability tools to identify performance degradation, system failures, and potential production risks. 

• Partner with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to improve application scalability, availability, and operational efficiency. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and incident prevention. 

• Champion engineering excellence by promoting best practices in application reliability, observability, operational readiness, and production support. 

• Maintain production support documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge-sharing practices. 

• Stay current with emerging technologies, cloud services, and application performance optimization techniques. 

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support business-critical applications and ensure timely response to production incidents. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. 

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with Java 

• Minimum 7 year’s experience with backend development 

• Minimum 7 year’s experience with Microservices 

• Minimum 7 year’s experience Developing Java API’s 

• Experience working with Relational Databases. 

• Fluent in Java programming language. 

• Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems. 

• Desire to work in a start-up, fast-growth, or rapid-change environment. 

• Experience working on a diverse workplace. 

• Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix. 

• Solid communication skills – written, and oral. 

• Ability to be flexible, adapting to changing priorities. 

• Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.