
Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java
- Jersey City, NJ
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leads and executes creative software solutions, including design, development, and deep technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex problems.
- Actively develops and review secure, high-quality production code ensuring adherence to best practices.
- Builds and optimizes event-driven systems to handle high-throughput, low-latency data streaming
- Identifies and implements opportunities to automate recurring remediation tasks, improving operational stability.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc).
- Extensive hands-on experience in designing, developing, and delivering complex enterprise applications.
- Advanced proficiency in Java, J2EE, and RESTful API development for scalable, distributed systems.
- Proven hands-on expertise in event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
- Strong hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB) and relational databases.
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, and continuous delivery methods.
- Full proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Experience leading large-scale, distributed system designs and performance optimization efforts.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead technical teams through delivery of high-impact initiatives.
- AWS Developer, Architect certification.