Senior Java Technical Lead — Remote, Cloud & Architecture

Xsciconsult; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 dedicated learning days

Certification support

Technical leadership growth

Collaboration with senior engineers

Job summary

XScience is seeking a Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to guide enterprise-grade software delivery. You will lead engineering teams, shape technical direction, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders across the EU, ensuring scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role combines hands-on leadership with architecture decisions, driving delivery, quality and performance while mentoring engineers and participating in interviewing processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional Java experience.
• Experience with Java 17 and Java 21 and modern web frameworks.
• Proficient in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Micronaut and cloud-native tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor software engineering teams, promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence.
• Take ownership of solutions from development through deployment, operation and maintenance.
• Participate in solution design, architecture discussions and implementation decisions.
• Diagnose production issues and define effective technical solutions.
• Challenge requirements constructively to improve outcomes and reduce unnecessary complexity.
• Support the adoption of technologies and practices that create measurable business value.
• Contribute to the technology roadmap and future technical direction.
• Promote scalable, maintainable and reliable engineering practices.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams in Agile delivery environments.
• Support technical interviews and assessment processes within your area of expertise.

Skills

Java 17

Java 21

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Micronaut

Azure Cloud

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Microservices

GraphQL Federation

REST API

OpenTelemetry

Dynatrace

Gradle

Unit Testing

Integration Testing

TDD

MongoDB

MySQL

JIRA

Confluence

Jenkins

Nexus

Scrum

Kanban

BDD

DevOps

CI/CD

Pair Programming

Design Patterns

Kotlin

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

Nexus

GitHub Actions

Gradle

Job description

XScience is seeking a Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to guide enterprise-grade software delivery. You will lead engineering teams, shape technical direction, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders across the EU, ensuring scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role combines hands-on leadership with architecture decisions, driving delivery, quality and performance while mentoring engineers and participating in interviewing processes.