Team Lead Java Software Engineer
Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC

We are seeking a passionate Team Lead Java Software Engineer looking to join an enterprise client who desires to work on cutting edge technologies and projects. If you are a developer who wants to be able to make a difference, have influence and work on some of the highest profile, key initiatives within a global company this role could be for you. This position requires someone to have solid core Java design, architecture and development skills and experience with Spring Boot, microservices, NoSQL databases, Agile, and have experience building heavily integrated, mission critical, business applications. The role is responsible for leading a team technically including the architecture, design, providing thought leadership, code reviews and mentoring to a team of digital developers. This person will be involved in heavy middle and back-end development for a technology that integrates with all the key company systems and their digital e-commerce applications. This role will allow someone to become a product expert of this platform and be the key technical interface with business analysts, PMs, Scrum Masters, and other business partners to develop requirements as well as help ensure the application meets the customer needs. The technology stack is Java/J2EE, NoSQL, microservices, Spring Boot, cloud native all done using an Agile methodology. This company has great benefits, bonus opportunity, culture and unlimited paid time off coupled with working on a mission critical platform. In order to be successful, you must be a self-starter, someone who doesn't stop until the solve problems, no matter how challenging, willing to speak up and contribute in all team discussions, contribute to technical design and architecture and take ownership over all work.

Required Skills:

• At least 7 years experience software development using core Java/J2EE with focus on back end development
• Seasoned developer with heavy experience with Spring Boot framework and microservices integrations/architecture from scratch
• RESTful web services and APIs or GraphQL
• Experience developing enterprise applications that utilize messaging technologies such as MQ, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ or Kafka
• NoSQL databases experience such as MongoDB, PostgresSQL etc
• Strong understanding and practice of Agile software development methodologies
• Expertise in performance tuning of highly complicated, heavily integrated cloud native applications built with optimization for scalability and high availability
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where working with a sense of urgency is key
• Work independently and own tickets, problems, assigned work until its completed
• Advanced SASS development
• Proficient in developing HTML code, CSS, and Java Script
• GIT/bitbucket repository, JIRA or similar tool experience
• Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail - clean code, automated testing, peer review
• Ability to collaborate with other software architects and engineers
• Strong collaboration and team-building skills
• Strong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies
• Advanced proficiency in developing HTML, SASS/LESS (CSS) and JavaScript
• Experience with React
• Must have excellent communication skills including verbal, written and presentation skills
• Must have leadership qualities and enjoy helping and mentoring others, conducting code reviews, leading design sessions
• Must be able to work effectively across multiple teams including business stake holders
• Proficiency within the Google Suite such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc

Desired Skills:

• Strongly desire someone who has experience with a tool such as Kotlin
• Understanding of containerized application development with Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Knowledge of build scripting tools such as Gradle, Ant, Maven, Gulp and Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Experience building ecommerce web applications strongly desired
• Experience building cloud native applications, ideally within GCP
• Experience with Kafka a huge plus
• Foundation/Bootstrap, LESS/SASS and JSTL tag libraries

Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.

California residents: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Company Profile:

Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting www.bhsg.com .

We look forward to working with you.

Beacon Hill. Employing the Future™

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