Senior Java Back - End Developer - Assistant Vice President

Role Summary
We’re seeking a seasoned
Senior Java Back - End Developer
with 5+ years of experience to lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of mission‑critical systems. You will own architecture decisions, drive engineering excellence, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, security, and platform teams to build scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems.Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design
Define and evolve system architecture for
cloud-native, microservices/event-driven
platforms (scalability, resilience, security, cost).Create
high-level and low-level designs, integration patterns, API contracts, and reference implementations.Lead design reviews;
ensure alignment with
domain-driven design (DDD) ,
12‑factor
principles, and organization standards.
Engineering Leadership
Lead squads through
full SDLC —from discovery and PoCs to production and SRE handoff.Establish
coding standards, code review practices, and
secure-by-default
patterns.Mentor and coach senior engineers;
support career growth and succession of technical leaders.
Hands-on Development
Build core services using
Java (17+) ,
Spring Boot ,
REST/GraphQL, and message/event streaming.Optimize for
performance, concurrency, observability, and
operational excellence
(SLOs, error budgets).Drive quality with
unit/integration/contract testing, test data strategy, and automated quality gates.
Cloud & Platform
Design for
AWS/Azure/GCP, container orchestration ( Kubernetes ),
service mesh, and
CI/CD .Implement
infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
patterns and secrets management.Partner with SRE/Platform teams on
monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and cost governance.
Data & Integration
Architect integrations across
SQL/NoSQL ,
caching
(Redis), and
event streams
(Kafka/Pulsar).Define
data contracts, schema evolution strategies, and
idempotent/eventual consistency
patterns.
Security & Compliance
Embed
AppSec
best practices,
OWASP
controls, secure API/auth (OAuth2/OIDC), and
zero trust
patterns.Ensure compliance with
regulatory
and
audit
requirements where applicable.
Stakeholder Partnership
Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and
architecture runway .Communicate trade-offs and decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
GenAI :
Knowledge of MCP, A2A, Agentic ArchitectureRequired Qualifications:
5+ years
of progressive experience building enterprise systems, with
5+ years
in
Java
and
Spring
at scale.Proven delivery of
cloud-native ,
microservices, and
event-driven
architectures.Strong expertise in:
Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Spring CloudREST/GraphQL APIs, gRPC (nice-to-have)Kafka
(or Pulsar),
Kubernetes ,
DockerRDBMS
(PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and
NoSQL
(MongoDB/Cassandra/DynamoDB)Caching
(Redis),
CI/CD
(GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins),
IaC
(Terraform/ARM)Observability
(OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK),
feature flags /progressive delivery
Solid grasp of
concurrency ,
performance tuning ,
resiliency patterns
(circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads), and
fault-tolerance .Demonstrated leadership of
architectural forums ,
design reviews, and
mentorship .Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.Nice-to-Have:
Domain knowledge:
Payments, banking, capital markets, insurance, e-commerce, supply chain, or telecom.Security:
Threat modeling, shift-left security, SAST/DAST, secrets rotation, mTLS.Data:
CDC (Debezium),
schema registry ,
exactly-once semantics, streaming ETL.Platform:
Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), API gateways (Kong/Apigee), Serverless (Lambda/Functions).Modern patterns:
CQRS, event sourcing, Saga orchestration, hexagonal architecture.Education:
Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experienceJob Family Group:
Job Family:
Time Type:
Full timePrimary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$94,300.00 - $141,500.00Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.Automated Processing and AI
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