Java Full-Stack Team Lead

Luxoft; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A modern financial institution in the UK seeks a Team Lead to oversee a Scrum team focused on delivering innovative banking technology solutions. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software development experience, strong usage of Java and ReactJS, and a proven track record in team leadership. This role offers opportunities for professional growth, competitive compensation, and a supportive work-life balance. Join us to enhance product quality and drive innovation in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Team-building activities

Competitive compensation

Qualifications

• 1+ year in Team Lead position within the last 2 years.
• At least 5+ years as a Software Developer.
• Proven knowledge of ReactJS and Redux, with 2+ years of recent experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Scrum processes and coach the team.
• Contribute to technical design and delivery of components.
• Lead a team of 3 developers and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Team leadership

Java core

ReactJS

Unit testing

Spring framework

SQL

Docker

OOP/OOD

Education

Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science or computer engineering

Tools

Jenkins

GIT

Tomcat

Job description

Project description Join a team that's redefining banking technology!Our client isn't a typical Swiss bank — it's a modern financial institution focused on delivering cutting-edge online trading and financial services. Unlike traditional banks weighed down by legacy systems, their tech stack is lean and innovative.The team builds products that transform complex, fragmented risk data into clear, actionable insights, enabling smarter and faster decisions to reduce risk. We focus on core business areas such as account risk and work closely with key stakeholders - Risk department, Compliance department, and the Middle Office Fraud Center — to deliver impactful solutions.You'll be part of a Scrum team of four, collaborating daily with stakeholders through stand-ups, status updates, and Agile ceremonies. We embrace best practices and modern communication tools: Zoom, Teams, Outlook, JIRA, Confluence, and more.We continuously evolve our solutions to atomic microservices and self-contained systems, based on dockerized environments with CI and CD.What we offer:Professional Growth: access to local trainings, on-demand webinars, interactive workshops, and support for conferences and certifications.Competitive Compensation: Regular annual reviews based on your performance and professional development.Work-Life Balance & Fun: Team-building activities, corporate events, hackathons, and a variety of engaging initiatives.If you're proactive, creative, and ready for new challenges, join us! Together, we'll enhance product quality and optimize processes while driving innovation.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for a team, its performance- Driving the Scrum processes, coaching the team, driving improvements- Contributing towards the technical direction of the products by being involved in technical design and delivery of components- Identifying potential risks and escalating to the manager and client- Communicating and interacting effectively with other Team Leads- Participation in meetings with the client (Stand Ups, Grooming, Planning, Demo, Retro, and other ad-hoc ones)- Requirements refinement, Sprint planning, and task estimation- Application development- Developing unit/integration tests, E2E, ensuring good development testing coverage- Lead a team of 3 developers- Participate in peer design and code reviews- Evaluate and adopt new development tools, libraries, and approaches to improve delivery quality

SKILLS

Must have

• 1+ year in Team Lead position [fresh experience during last 2 years]- At least 5+ years of proven experience in a Software Developer position- Java core, Java 11+ features- OOP/OOD knowledge, design patterns- HTML, CSS, JavaScript- Proven knowledge of ReactJS, Redux [2+ fresh years of proven experience]- Unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, etc.)- Spring framework, IOC- RESTfull services- Java-based application servers (e.g. Tomcat)- SQL knowledge, any RDBMS, Oracle/PostgreSQL is a plus- ORM, Hibernate in particular- Maven and Distributed SCM (GIT OR Mercurial)- CI tools experience (Jenkins)- Docker

Nice to have

• Education: Bachelor's / Master's degree in computer science or computer engineering- Experience in finance/banking business domain- Unix usage experience- Kafka- Java 11-21- WebSocket