Tech Lead Java

Accountabilities: Lead the technical direction of the team, ensuring architectural consistency and high-quality deliveries. Design, maintain, and evolve backend and frontend architectures aligned with business and non-functional requirements. Define technical standards, development guidelines, and engineering best practices. Identify and resolve complex technical impediments and structural challenges. Support the team in critical technical decisions and architecture reviews. Contribute hands-on code when necessary, particularly for critical or foundational components. Ensure consistent integration across frontend applications, BFF layers, and backend services. Drive technical governance, observability, application security, and solution resilience. Collaborate closely with Product Owners, UX, QA, and technical stakeholders. Raise the team's technical capabilities through continuous mentoring, guidance, and code reviews. Requirements: Strong experience with modern Java (17+ or 21+). Proficiency with Spring Boot and/or Micronaut. Advanced React skills and a solid understanding of frontend architecture. Experience designing and implementing microservices and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architectures. Knowledge of REST API design, development, and versioning. Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing. Familiarity with integrations involving critical systems through REST APIs, events, and webhooks. Knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols and frameworks, including OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC. Experience implementing resilience strategies such as retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and fallbacks. Understanding of relational data persistence and event-driven data architectures. Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar. Knowledge of end-to-end observability, including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing. Strong understanding of application security, OWASP Top 10, and data protection. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and continuous delivery practices. Familiarity with code quality tools such as SonarQube or equivalent. Proficiency with Git in collaborative environments, including pull requests and code reviews. Previous experience as a Tech Lead or Software Architect in critical products is a plus. Experience in financial or regulated environments, production system support, high-volume applications, and strict SLA environments is desirable. Experience working with distributed teams and complex corporate environments is an advantage. Familiarity with Generative AI, Spec-Driven Development (SDD), and AI-assisted software development is a plus. Strong technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, and mentoring skills. Benefits: Education allowance. Flexible working hours. Day off. Gympass membership. Telepsychology services. Telemedicine services. Fully remote work arrangement. Full-time, contractor (PJ) engagement.