Hands-on Senior Java Tech Lead: Banking Microservices

Insight Global (United States); Dublin; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks an experienced Java/J2EE Technology Lead to provide hands-on leadership across banking applications in Ireland. The role blends coding with design decisions, code reviews and mentoring of engineers.

You'll guide microservices and REST API development, work with DevOps and architects, and ensure scalable, secure, and resilient solutions for high-volume production systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Java/J2EE software engineering experience, with hands-on development.
• Experience as Java Tech Lead or Lead Developer who codes.
• Strong banking/financial-services domain experience in large environments.
• Proven ability to design microservices and REST APIs.
• Solid OO design, patterns, data structures and enterprise app architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across enterprise Java/J2EE applications in a banking environment.
• Lead design decisions, code reviews and guide engineers through complex deliveries.
• Develop microservices, REST APIs and event-driven solutions with Spring/Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, QA and stakeholders across the SDLC.
• Drive CI/CD, testing, observability and production stability.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Technical Lead

Spring/Spring Boot

Banking domain

REST APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Kafka/IBM MQ

SQL/Relational DB

Observability

Code reviews

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kafka/MQ

Splunk/Dynatrace/AppDynamics

Grafana/ELK/Prometheus

Git/Jenkins CI/CD

Job description

Insight Global seeks an experienced Java/J2EE Technology Lead to provide hands-on leadership across banking applications in Ireland. The role blends coding with design decisions, code reviews and mentoring of engineers.

You'll guide microservices and REST API development, work with DevOps and architects, and ensure scalable, secure, and resilient solutions for high-volume production systems.