Senior/Lead Java

Overview Senior/Lead Java & Spring Boot Developer We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior/Lead Java & Spring Boot Developer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-grade APIs with a strong focus on reusability, scalability, performance, and security. You will also play a key role in mentoring developers, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Experience in the banking or financial services sector is a strong plus, as you will be working on complex systems that require transactional integrity, high availability, and regulatory compliance. Key Responsibilities Application Development & Delivery: Design, develop, and deploy Java and Spring Boot microservices for mission-critical systems. Build and integrate RESTful APIs with internal and external systems, ensuring high availability and low latency. Write clean, efficient, and testable code with unit and integration testing frameworks. Own features across the full software development lifecycle (requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, and support). System Architecture & Technical Design: Contribute to architectural decisions around microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems. Ensure compliance with financial industry regulations (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR). Collaborate with architects to design applications that integrate with core banking and payment systems. Drive performance tuning, scalability improvements, and troubleshooting in production. Team Collaboration & Leadership: Lead and mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and enforce coding standards. Collaborate closely with QA, DevOps, and Product teams in Agile/Scrum environments. Support knowledge sharing and advocate for continuous improvement. Help manage delivery timelines while balancing quality and performance requirements. Continuous Improvement & DevOps: Work with CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments. Monitor application health using logging and monitoring tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana). Ensure applications meet uptime and resilience standards critical in banking. Participate in incident management and root cause analysis for high-priority issues. Qualifications 6–10 years of experience in Java development, with at least 2–3 years in a Senior/Lead role 6–10 years of experience in Spring Framework and Spring Boot Prior work in banking, fintech, or financial services is highly desirable. Technical Expertise Java (8/11/17+) – Strong OOP, concurrency, collections, and JVM internals. Spring Boot & Spring Framework – Expertise in microservices, REST APIs, and enterprise applications. Spring Cloud – Service discovery, configuration management, distributed resilience. Databases – SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis). Messaging & Streaming – Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ. Cloud & Containers – Deployments in AWS, Azure, or GCP with Docker and Kubernetes. CI/CD & DevOps – Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform/Ansible. Security & Compliance – OAuth2, JWT, SSO, secure API design aligned with financial industry standards. Banking Domain Experience (highly desirable) Core Banking Systems – deposits, loans, account management. Payment Processing – payment gateways, ACH, SWIFT, credit card and mobile wallet integrations. Digital Banking Applications – mobile banking apps, online banking platforms, and API-driven ecosystems. Regulatory Compliance & Security – PCI-DSS, KYC/AML, fraud prevention, transaction monitoring. High-Performance Transaction Systems – real-time processing, high-volume data flows, and fault-tolerant architectures. Middleware & Integrations – ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), API gateways, and legacy system modernization. #J-18808-Ljbffr