Senior Java developer / Technical Lead

Senior Java Developer / Technical Lead

Location: Canada (Remote) Term: Long Term Contract Note: POS experience is a big plus

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead with 8+ years of hands-on development experience and a minimum of 3+ years in team leadership. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in building scalable microservices, working in agile environments, and collaborating with cross functional stakeholders including clients, architects, DevOps teams, and QA. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to drive end to end solution delivery, and strong communication for requirement gathering and solution recommendations.

Required Experience & Skills

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• 3+ years of proven experience leading teams.
• Proven proficiency writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Strong coding skills in Java and hands-on experience with production level development in Spring Boot Microservices Framework.
• Strong code reviewing skills, unit testing skills using JUnit and Mockito.
• Proven proficiency in writing clean, maintainable automation using the Cucumber framework.
• Strong experience in designing and developing resilience and secure applications.
• Proven proficiency in performance analysis using newrelic or similar, addressing/suggesting fixes and performance tuning.
• Demonstrates end-to-end ownership, from analysis and coding to testing, deployment, and ongoing production maintenance.
• Shows the capability to work independently, taking ownership of tasks through to production, ensuring consistent quality and meeting deadlines.
• Provides reliable, high-quality contributions across the development lifecycle, including analyzing the requirements/code, writing code, code review, test coverage, and deployment.
• Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Version Control (GIT), CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional, global teams.
• Strong communication, client coordination, and problem solving skills.
• Experience working in high availability, high performance environments.
• Mandatory to have strong Domain experience in Retail/eCommerce.
• Strong experience in integration with Loyalty/Rewards/Martech or Similar.
• Strong experience in designing and integrating applications with SaS-based platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Full Ownership/Accountability: Demonstrates end-to-end ownership, from strong analytical skills and coding to testing, deployment, and ongoing production maintenance.

Proactive & Independent: Shows the capability to work independently, taking ownership of tasks through to production, including deployment and production testing, ensuring consistent quality and meeting deadlines.

Technical Leadership & Project Delivery

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring high-quality code delivery and adherence to best practices.
• Own end-to-end design, development, and deployment of distributed systems and microservices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QA, DevOps, Architecture, Product) to ensure smooth delivery.
• Participate in architectural discussions and propose scalable, secure, and robust solutions.

Client Engagement

• Coordinate directly with client stakeholders to gather requirements, refine user stories, and recommend optimal technical solutions.
• Provide clear technical insights and feasibility assessments during discussions with business and product teams.

Agile Delivery

• Work within Agile/Scrum frameworks—lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimations, and retrospectives.
• Drive continuous improvement across the team through code reviews, automation, and process enhancements.

Core Technologies

• Java, Spring Boot, Microservices Architecture
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Pub/Sub Kubernetes Docker Terraform Liquibase Kafka RabbitMQ
• DevOps / CI-CD Argo-CD Bamboo Bitbucket Gradle
• Database & Storage PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle
• Testing Frameworks JUnit Cucumber Mockito