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Chennai, India Hybrid Java

Lead Java Full Stack Engineer

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Lead Java Full Stack Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

  • Write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC using high coding standards and software best practices
  • Develop products and deliver features and updates according to the product roadmap
  • Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/updates to specifications for the solution
  • Drive activities – daily meetings, planning, retrospectives, etc
  • Set engineering standards in the team and help other team members adopt them
  • Line manager responsibilities – team’s professional and career development
  • Be open to adopting new technologies and approaches on projects as they evolve, especially those relating to GenAI advancements
  • Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge development
  • Assists the team in daily work

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in software development required – proficiency in Java 8 or higher
  • Experience building Enterprise-grade applications Java and Microservices (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring/ Spring boot)
  • Strong experience in Java Spring boot, Core Java, API, Microservices, Angular, and React JS
  • Strong database experience in PL/SQL, PostgreSQL
  • Experience of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control
  • Strong experience building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL, PL/SQL
  • Experience in Java Spring security – JWT, CSRF, Method based security, RBAC
  • Experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA
  • Experience and knowledge of Java Multithreading
  • Experience in implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability, and performance
  • Experience and understanding of design patterns for microservices development
  • Experience working on high-throughput microservices by leveraging concurrency, supporting multithreading, event-based processing, or developing services to manage high data volumes
  • Experience in Test-Driven development
  • Strong SQL skills to work on Relational databases
  • Strong experience in SDLC, DevOps processes – CI/CD tools, Git, etc
  • Good Understanding of Messaging frameworks like IBM MQ and Kafka
  • Knowledge of Scrum and XP methodologies and ability to work in a rapidly changing environment
  • Experience using GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs

Software Design:

  • Solid background in designing and developing solutions using best practices and patterns
  • Experience with monolithic, microservices, and event-driven architectural styles on commercial projects

Quality Assurance:

  • Proven experience in driving quality improvements for design and implementation decisions within a team

Software Deployment:

  • Hands-on experience with software deployment and configuration in the Cloud (pipelines, deployment patterns) and Container Orchestrators (k8s, Docker Swarm)

Leadership:

  • Lead development team
  • Lead and improve the decision-making process in design solution architecture, solution development, architecture and code review

Personal skills

  • Communication is a key. You speak and write in English fluently or at least at an upper-intermediate level

Accountability:

  • Following the “said and done” principle
  • Accountability for the scope of the team’s work

Drive:

  • Proactive in efforts to deliver results according to the expectations
  • Suggesting new ideas, looking for alternative solutions

Self–development:

  • Eager to learn and grow: curios, keen to constant self-development
  • Constantly improving own mastership

Effective communication:

  • Ability to express ideas, thoughts, and questions simply, concisely, and in a structured way
  • Creating an open feedback culture
  • Clear communication of risks and consequences

Team management:

  • Effective teamwork organization

Process improvement:

  • Skilled in technical risk mitigation
  • Orchestrating the delivery process improvements with the feedback-driven approach

People Development:

  • Taking active steps toward the team’s professional skills improvement

What's in it for you

  • Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, as well as financial and legal consultation
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: hybrid work mode at Chennai or Pune
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Resourcing Team helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:

India is a strategic growth market for Ciklum.
Be a part of a big story created right now. Lets grow our delivery center in India together! Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals — all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul.
Supported by Recognize Partners and expanding globally, we will engineer the experiences of tomorrow!

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

Interested already?

We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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