Java Lead | Remote

Forte Group is looking for a Java Team Lead to join our team. Our client's product and engineering team owns an enterprise-class workload automation platform that provides a centralized, enterprise-wide interface for planning and controlling the execution of business processes via automation of jobs scheduling and workflow orchestration across multiple applications, systems, and infrastructure. The entire product ecosystem consists of several applications tightly integrated with each other and used to orchestrate complex IT workflows, optimize workload automation activities, provide centralized management of schedules, collect analytics, and stream data related to software operations.

Our engineering organization is international and distributed across Poland, Ukraine, Argentina, and the United States, with colleagues also based in Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries.

The structure consists of:

• 2 end-to-end Feature Teams responsible for building and evolving core product functionality.
• A dedicated Test Automation Team ensures quality and reliability.
• This team acts as a bridge between engineering and customer-facing functions, ensuring that urgent challenges are addressed quickly without slowing down ongoing feature development.

We use Jira for backlog management and prioritization, Confluence for documentation, and collaborate daily via Slack and Zoom. Our teams follow a Scrum-based Agile process with 2-week iterations, structured backlog grooming, and a strong culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing across distributed locations.

Tech Stack: Java, GWT, React, JDBC Template, Bash, Multithreading, Networking, POSIX, TCP/IP, Process Management

You Are an Agile Team Leader

Proactively lead an Agile team towards predictable delivery with quality, following the agreed way of working and ensuring expected cadence of deliverables.

Help team members to meet professional challenges, advise on best approaches, do 121s (recommended once per 2~3 weeks) and facilitate knowledge sharing.

You Are an Agile Team Member

Be part of a self-organizing team – a team that solves complex challenges and builds working software. Asking for assistance when problems become challenging

The Java Team Lead is considered the premier developer on the team. It is therefore your responsibility to engineer solutions that enable the business while supporting the strategic architectural vision of quality, scalability, performance, and function.

Principal Accountability | Technical Sprint Planning

Commands a broad awareness of dependent projects and considers them in design

Helps team members define clear, small, and testable tasks

Works with technical stakeholders at the client side to ensure team’s direction is in line with the core platform vision

Owns/manages the technical backlog and works with PM/PO to schedule those efforts

Principal Accountability | Software Development

Practices and teaches unit test development

Addresses technical debt constantly - escalating when it becomes risky to time or quality

Carries out root cause analysis on defects to ensure fixes are happening in the right way

Keeps an up-to-date local development environment to reduce risk

Principal Accountability | Software Inspection

Employs static code analysis to identify code readability, anti-patterns, vulnerabilities & defects

Monitors unit level test results after code is committed and holds team to account on quality

Considers cyclomatic complexity of code and drives project refactors where necessary

Enforces transparency of the inspection process via Continuous Integration and reporting

Principal Accountability | Release Planning

Identifies tactical risks and raises/resolves issues effectively

Ensures that operational teams are effective during deployment (dry-run or production)

Follows up with infrastructure to create service accounts, permissions, access rights, etc.

Creates deployment documentation which outlines WHERE & WHAT?

Principal Accountability | Community

Collaborates outside of the product team to encourage a development community

Liaises between the team and management to assure needed skills are represented on the team

Experience leading development team in Agile environment, working in Scrum methodology

Our remote-first approach lets you choose where and how you work best!

Experience working with diverse teams and gaining international expertise

A chance to work on exciting, challenging projects using cutting-edge technologies that make a real impact

Comprehensive health insurance, corporate psychologist access, and partial sports activity coverage

Free training programs, reimbursement for certifications, and access to online learning platforms to fuel your growth

Paid vacation, public holidays, and sick leave are fully covered by Forte Group

Referral bonuses, regular performance reviews, and full support for business trips

Corporate events and holiday presents

Founded over 25 years ago, Forte Group began with a focus on Quality Assurance and has since evolved into a dynamic force in the tech industry, delivering cutting-edge solutions worldwide. As an American company headquartered in Boca Raton, USA, we've had the privilege of partnering with over 400 clients , including Fortune 500 giants. Our software has made a significant impact, reaching more than 9 million users — comparable to the entire population of New York or Switzerland!

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