Lead Java Developer

Epam Systems; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems in Chennai is seeking a Tech Lead to own complex service-level problems, guide cross-functional teams, and deliver high-quality applications.

You will write code, promote secure practices, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teammates with a focus on reliability and AI-powered growth.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot with REST APIs.
• Experience guiding teams on development practices and coding guidelines.
• Ability to conduct domain-driven design and architecture mapping.

Responsibilities

• Own complex problems across services and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Write and review code, promote secure practices and high-quality artifacts.
• Define and develop service-level procedures to meet business needs.
• Drive prioritization with product partners.
• Provide development and architecture guidance.
• Lead by example to promote engineering excellence.
• Leverage AI to accelerate growth.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST API

Secure coding

Code reviews

Architectural guidance

Cross-functional collaboration

Domain-driven design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Event Framework

Job description

As a Tech Lead, you will:

• Own complex problems having dependencies across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
• Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production
• Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet business requirements/enhancements
• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
• Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
• Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
• Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one\'s accomplishments
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
• Use AI to bring value and accelerate growth.

All About You

• Skillful at writing secure code in multiple languages; Familiar with secure coding standards and vulnerability management
• Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, REST API, PGDB, Event Framework
• Proficient in documenting and coaching team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
• Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
• Proficient in researching and understanding the application of new programming languages, frameworks, and libraries to promote faster and secure development
• Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
• Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
• Able to perform domain-driven design to architect and map software solutions to business contexts
• Proficient in defining, organizing, and reporting on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
• Understands which tools and practices to choose for intelligently automating builds, tests, and deployments where processes and applications are designed upfront with automation in mind
• Bachelor\'s degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience[BS2] ; Payment industry knowledge preferred but not required