Java Tech Lead (Full-Stack)

Job Description:

About the Role

We're looking for a Java Tech Lead with 10-12 years of experience and a deep understanding of building high-performing, scalable, and personalized digital platform/solution. You’ll lead the technical implementation of customer-facing portals, integrations, and backend services that power modern digital experiences. This role blends strong hands-on Java expertise with the strategic mindset needed for digital transformation and integration with pre-existing components running on non-Java platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Document and implement a robust Java‑based digital platform and headless APIs to power digital experiences.

• Lead design and implementation of microservices for customer journeys such as search, browse, cart, checkout, and personalization.

• Experience designing, configuring and supporting RDBMS solutions in Azure Cloud.

• Work closely with Product Managers, UI/UX teams, and DevOps engineers to ensure seamless end-to-end customer experiences.

• Integrate with key systems like PIM, OMS, CRM, payment gateways, and third-party personalization engines.

• Design and implement component integration solutions using message brokers such as AMQP based messaging solutions such as RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus for real-time data processing, order events, customer activity tracking, etc.

• Support cloud-native deployments on Azure(preferred), AWS or GCP ensuring scalability, availability, and security.

• Drive performance tuning, caching strategies (Hazelcast, Redis), and low-latency API designs for high traffic digital platform.

• Provide technical leadership across squads, mentor engineers, and enforce best practices around DevSecOps and CI/CD.

• Ensure observability requirements are defined and met using tools such as Datadog and Splunk.

• Stay abreast of the latest in digital platform tech, MACH architecture, and GenAI innovations relevant to digital platform, including agentic AI for developer productivity.

Must-Have Skills

• Core Tech: Java 11+ (preferably Java 17 or 21), Spring Boot, J2EE, RESTful APIs
• Frontend: React 18+, TypeScript, hooks, component libraries (Material-UI), portal client extensions/API integration.

• Architecture: Microservices, Design Patterns

• DevOps: Jenkins, Docker, Bitbucket/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines

• Cloud: Hands-on experience with Azure(preferred)/ AWS / GCP (2+ years; certification preferred)

• Databases: Postgres/Oracle/DB2/SQL, SQL tuning

• Full-cycle exposure to SDLC stages: requirements, development, testing, deployment and on-going operations

• Understanding of DevSecOps practices and digital platform-specific security concerns (PCI DSS, OWASP)

• Domain Expertise: Experience in building and operating digital platforms.

• Messaging & Integration: Messaging queue or streaming tools for backend-to-frontend event correlation and third-party integrations

• Agile Leadership: Strong understanding of Scrum, backlog grooming, iteration planning, technical sizing

• Experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., OpenCode, ClaudeCode, or equivalent) for accelerating Java development, test automation, and CI/CD workflows.

• Customer-Centric Mindset: Ability to build as well as verify secure, fast, and intuitive systems for high engagement and conversion

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design.

• Experience with application performance monitoring and distributed log tools (New Relic, Datadog, Splunk)

• Previous work with GenAI tools like GitHub Copilot or Amazon Q Developer

• Experience with data governance including controlling access to PII.

• RFP and pre-sales solution design experience for digital platforms

• Design and implement solutions that externalized business rules in dedicated testable business rules engine

• Evaluate and integrate third-party APIs, legacy systems (.NET, IBM iSeries), REST and GraphQL services.

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Terraform.

• Understanding of product catalog and session management at scale

Preferred Certifications

• Cloud Certifications (Azure Architect, AWS Solution Architect, etc.)

• Java / Spring Certification

• Digital platform certifications (SAP Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adobe Commerce/Magento – a plus)

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.