Java Team Lead

Devexperts

Porto, Portugal

Job Description

What we’re looking for:

An opportunity to team up with an experienced Java Team Lead to guide one of our teams of highly experienced engineers (3-8 people) and simultaneously manage daily project operations and communicate with the customer’s team.

You will be responsible for the individual professional growth of your subordinates, managing team members’ tasks daily, supervising and guiding a distributed team of professionals along working through requirements with the customer’s team.

Being a primary technical point of contact for the customer you should have excellent communication skills, a technical mindset with great attention to detail, ability to analyze suggested approaches and come up with better solutions.

This is also an incredible opportunity to work on the high availability and consistency of a distributed system that processes millions of operations on a daily basis. On top of that, you'll be presented with other challenges such as (but not limited to):

Backend implementation of complex business logic related to options strategies trading, refinement of existing components (core trading system, key modules and services, administrative UI backend).
Creating an API layer for the trading data in a convenient form for use in the client terminal.
Teamwork: mandatory code reviews, daily meetings, participation in planning and retrospectives, interaction with QA engineers, analysts, and other teams
Cover the code with the unit, integration tests, and CI/CD configuration.
Communicate with the client and participate in requirements elaboration, architecture discussions, and external demos.
Ensure good monitoring and efficient incident processing

Along with that, you’re going to be expected to maintain high test coverage and instill best coding practices in the team. Finally, all the team members are expected to be actively involved with system health monitoring and its support.

We expect the Java Team Lead to

Oversee day-to-day team operation.
Mentor and share knowledge.
Maintain and improve the development process (scrum-like).
Analyze and work on requirements with the customer’s team (including implementation specifics).
Estimate requirements efforts.
Navigate implementation details to ensure consistency with the initial design.
Participate in code reviews.
Develop new features.
Write unit and integration tests.

Qualifications

Must-have skills:

Experience as a team lead in a group of 4-5 developers.
Strong knowledge of Java programming language.
High-quality organizational and leadership skills.
Understanding of the testing pyramid, particularly unit, integration, and acceptance testing.
Desire to write, optimize, document, and maintain code and thoroughly cover it with tests.
Desire to achieve goals as a team, willingness to help colleagues, and ability to give/take criticism.
Proficient English language (C1 and higher) to be able to communicate with the team and client.