Java Lead - Spring boot, Microservices & RESTful

Photon - Las Vegas, NV

Full-time - Senior

Las Vegas, NV

1,001-5,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Java Lead API Validation role is a key position within the Digital Engineering team, responsible for leading the development of microservice applications and ensuring high-quality API validation. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders, including business and marketing teams, to implement customer applications, manage a development team, and maintain technical standards. The position requires strong technical leadership and mentoring capabilities, as well as a focus on delivering scalable and fault-tolerant code.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and marketing to implement detailed customer applications
• Build microservice applications using best practices
• Write high-quality, scalable, reusable, fault-tolerant code
• Write automated unit tests and perform API validations
• Debug errors, troubleshoot issues, and perform routine performance optimizations
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and define API schemas
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate UI components with back-end systems
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Solutions Architect to gather business requirements and groom user stories
• Set development standards within the team and ensure high-quality technical documentation
• Manage a team to deliver new solutions that solve user and business problems for our website
• Identify and communicate development best practices to enhance efficiency and performance
• Perform technical assessment of requirements for implementation feasibility
• Serve as a mentor, technical leader, and thought leader for the team
• Actively participate in scrum/agile ceremonies
• Gather and document requirements for development and delivery
• Contribute code to improve and implement new and existing features
• Perform code reviews and mentor developers
• Communicate with business and various other departments.

Requirements

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate business/functional requirements to High/Low-Level Designs
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Iterative development methodologies
• Solid programming experience in Java Spring Boot and RESTful Microservices development
• Experience with concurrency frameworks like Mono, Flux
• Strong relational database experience in Oracle, MS SQL, or Postgres
• Experience with Automated Testing and tools such as JUnit
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, GitLab, Swagger, Postman, SOAP UI
• Experience with logging frameworks and monitoring tools like Kibana, ELK, Dynatrace
• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Design patterns, and asynchronous programming
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum/Iterative development methodologies
• Background in Financial Domain/Sector
• Experience with ORM frameworks like Entity, Hibernate, Dapper
• Experience in API authentication and Authorization using OAuth
• Knowledge of queuing or streaming engines like Kafka
• Knowledge of Docker, GIT, SonarQube, and other CI/CD deployment tools
• Awareness & Experience in implementing BIAN framework.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the Financial Domain/Sector
• Knowledge of queuing or streaming engines like Kafka
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD tools

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for professional development
• Collaborative work environment