Lead Software Engineer( Java Backend Developer

Role : Lead Software Engineer( Java Backend Developer)

Location : O'Fallon, MO / Hybrid

Duration : 12 months

Description :

The lead software engineer guides the team in the critical path of one or more work streams, facilities training and mentoring, and produces industry-leading custom software.

They accomplish these accountabilities using a combination of deep technical expertise, servant leadership, and best practices from the teaching and coaching disciplines.

This role is successful when they have mentored the team to the place were they can accomplish their work without the lead and therefore the team can be accelerated with the lead.

About the Role :

Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.

Assists in assessment, evaluation, and recommends of software development tools.

Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems.

Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees.

Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and / or training to other application developers.

May manage medium to large sized project / initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative.

Org-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions.

Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs.

Significant advanced code development, commitment of code / review of pull-requests, and modest day-to-day

support duties.

About You :

Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments

transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)

Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc.

Delivered scalable products through a CI / CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure.

Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI / CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and

Deploy).

Strong writing and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills :

Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)

Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.

Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot

Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry(PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.

Experience in CI / CD pipeline creation via Manager