Senior Development Lead Full Stack Microservices

Royal Cyber; Medina; On-site; SAR 167,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Cyber in Medina invites a senior Java microservices lead to design, develop, and secure scalable APIs.

You will own API contracts, mentor teams, and collaborate with product, security, QA, and DevOps to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.

Hands-on with Spring Boot, OAuth2, JWT, React, and container orchestration will be required to drive performance and reliability. This role demands strong communication and a track record of delivering in Agile environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading software development teams.
• Strong expertise in Java/Spring Boot and microservices.
• Hands-on with React JS and API integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and translate requirements into LLD service architecture API contracts.
• Develop scalable Java Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs.
• Drive API security using OAuth2/OIDC/JWT and API gateway concepts.
• Provide technical leadership for React JS development and API integration.
• Hands-on coding, debugging, performance optimization, and complex issues.
• Conduct code design reviews, mentor developers, remove blockers.
• Support production L3 issues, RCA, deployments, DR activities, and stabilization.
• Collaborate with Architects, Product Owners, QA, DevOps, Security, and Business teams.

Skills

Java 8

Java 11

Java 17

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Microservices

REST APIs

LLD

JPA Hibernate

SQL

React JS

JavaScript

TypeScript

OAuth2

OIDC

JWT

API Gateway

Git

CI CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and translate requirements into LLD service architecture API contracts and integration flows
• Develop scalable Java Spring Boot Microservices and REST APIs
• Drive API security using OAuth2 OIDC JWT Authentication Authorization and API Gateway concepts
• Provide technical leadership for React JS development and API integration
• Remain hands-on with coding debugging performance optimization and complex technical issues
• Conduct code design reviews mentor developers and remove technical blockers
• Support production L3 issues RCA deployments DR activities and application stabilization
• Collaborate with Architects Product Owners QA DevOps Security and Business teams

Preferred candidate profile

Must-Have Skills

• Java 8
• 11
• 17
• Spring Boot
• Spring Security
• Microservices
• REST APIs
• LLD
• JPA Hibernate
• SQL
• React JS
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• OAuth2
• OIDC
• JWT
• API Gateway
• Git
• CI CD
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps

Candidate Profile812+ years of software development experience. 3+ years as Technical Lead / Development Lead. Strong expertise in LLD + Java/Spring Boot + Microservices . Strong API design and security knowledge. Good hands-on React JS experience. Proven ability to lead a development team while remaining hands-on technically . Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills. Enterprise-scale digital application experience in an Agile/Scrum environment.