Job Description:
• Lead the Service team while maintaining hands-on involvement in development.
• Drive technical design, architecture decisions, and implementation strategies for service systems.
• Establish and maintain engineering best practices around Java, Spring Boot, and event-driven architectures.
• Oversee development of the Service platform, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and resources while maintaining technical excellence.
• Lead Agile ceremonies with focus on continuous improvement and team efficiency.
• Guide the career development of engineers, with focus on backend development expertise.
• Provide mentorship in AI, Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and microservices best practices.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and performance evaluations focused on technical and professional growth.
• Work closely with Product Management and stakeholders to define and deliver order processing capabilities.
• Foster collaboration between the Service team and other engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement in our event-driven architecture and microservices approach.
• Drive AI transformation in team processes and procedures.
• Optimize development processes while maintaining high quality standards.
Requirements:
• 3+ years of proven track record building and managing high-performance engineering teams.
• 7+ years of hands-on development experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong expertise in event-driven architecture and message processing.
• Experience with GraphQL API design and implementation in Java.
• Extensive experience with AWS services and microservice architecture.
• Experience leading teams in building secure, scalable backend services.
• Experience leading off-shore contractors and remote/hybrid teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code.
• Strong understanding of AI Tooling and Workflow Automation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Benefits:
• comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
• free testing in addition to fertility care benefits.
• pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
• 401k benefits.
• commuter benefits.
• generous employee referral program!