Lead Java Engineer

Role: Lead Java Engineer
Location: Remote
Term: Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience.

Expert-level proficiency in Java (Java 11 or higher preferred).

Deep, hands-on experience with Spring Batch, including custom readers/writers, step flows, partitioning, retry/skip logic, and job orchestration.

Prior experience leading teams or acting as a senior technical mentor.

Strong command of OOP principles and proven ability to apply classic design patterns in real-world, large-scale systems.

Strong understanding of multi-threading, performance tuning, and memory management in Java.

Familiarity with relational databases, SQL, and transactional behavior in batch processing.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automated testing, and cloud or container environments.

Roles & Responsibilities

Participate in Agile ceremonies including daily standup, grooming, retrospective, demos, sprint and PI planning as part of the Alchemist scrum team. Assist team in decomposing features into user stories, and raise risk/challenges to scrum master and architect.

Lead the design and evolution of a configurable batch-processing platform based on Spring Batch with significant customizations.

Build and enhance complex batch workflows, job orchestration layers, partitioning strategies, and custom Spring Batch components

Optimize memory, threading models, chunk sizes, retry policies, and failure recovery strategies.

Apply advanced OOP design patterns (e.g., Strategy, Template Method, Factory, Builder, Chain of Responsibility) to construct highly flexible and extensible components.

Drive design decisions that improve platform modularity, configurability, and performance.

Create and maintain platform frameworks, libraries, and reusable abstractions.

Create and Maintain software design specification documentation

Ensure software quality by conducting design reviews, code reviews, and enforcing unit testing/code coverage, static analysis, and software application security testing standards.

Participate in software release preparation, go-live, and hypercare activities to ensure development results in business value delivery

Quarterback production incident and defect root cause analysis ensuring issues are quickly identified and assigned to the correct developer for timely remediation

Stay current with latest middleware and enterprise integration trends and proactively discuss improvement opportunities with architect

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Preferred Skills

Experience with AWS services including AWS Batch, S3, EFS, and RDS

Experience building or supporting highly configurable, metadata-driven platforms.

Experience with enterprise scheduling tools (Stonebranch).

Experience with observability platforms (NewRelic, SumoLogic).