Lead Java Developer

Lead Java Developer – Onsite

Location: White Plains, NY
Work Arrangement: 4 Days Onsite / Week
Duration: 12+ Months
Interview: In-Person

Job Overview

Lead-level candidate will also provide technical guidance, mentor engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and drive best practices across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, implement, and support scalable, highly available software applications.
• Write and review production-quality Java code.
• Design and develop Java/JEE-based microservices and REST APIs.
• Troubleshoot complex technical and production issues.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, architecture, and development plans.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other software engineers.
• Promote best practices around software design, automated testing, security, reliability, observability, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, QA, Delivery, and Operations teams.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation and cloud-native development practices.
• Help evaluate and responsibly adopt AI-assisted software engineering tools and methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional Java software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, JEE, and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience developing microservices and REST APIs.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Strong SQL, relational database, and data-modeling knowledge.
• Experience with Git and modern software development practices.
• Strong understanding of JSON, OAuth, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale, highly available applications.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience working in Agile or structured software development environments.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Additional Requirements

• Previous technical leadership experience supporting a team of at least 3 software engineers.
• Strong solution-design and architectural decision-making experience.
• Experience mentoring developers and driving engineering best practices.
• Ability to communicate technical risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with automated delivery, DevOps, observability, and production operations.
• Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools and methodologies.
• Experience in e-commerce, retail, automotive, financial services, or other consumer-facing digital platforms.