Java API Tech Lead / Architect

Ventures Unlimited Inc; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A service-centric organization is seeking a Java API Tech Lead/Architect in Bentonville, AR. This full-time role requires a minimum of 6 years in Java development and expertise in RESTful web services. The Tech Lead will design and implement integration solutions, lead a team, and ensure coding best practices. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and experience in Agile environments. Ideal for those with 8-12 years in IT and a background in cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of software development experience with Java.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful web services.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business audiences.
• 8-12 years of overall IT experience, with at least 6 years in relevant skills.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful web services for complex systems.
• Experience with RESTful security approaches.
• Ability to collaborate with database programmers and UI programmers to ensure effective API.
• Strong communication with business and technical audiences.
• Experience in Agile development.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, debug, and document integration solutions.
• Lead a team of software engineers.
• Conduct design and code reviews.
• Drive a quality mindset within the team.
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mind set within the team

Skills

Java

Web Services

RESTful APIs

Agile Development

Design Patterns

Communication Skills

Scalability Design

Architecture

Agile

Communication

Leadership

Security

Profiling

DB Collaboration

Cloud Basics

Team Coaching

Tools

Spring

OneOps

AWS

Job description

Ventures Unlimited is a service centric organization. Our success begins with our ability to apply our relationships, leverage technologies, and identify talent - often in combination - to an endless array of real-world customer needs.

Job Description

Title : Java API Tech Lead / Architect

Location : Bentonville, AR

Type : Full Time

Job Description :

Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills :

• Minimum 6 years of software development experience with Java including Web Services, JSON, SOAP, WSDL, J2EE, Spring
• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Experience designing software for scalability and resilience
• Experience at technical lead level
• Experience designing and developing RESTful web services for complex software systems
• Experience with RESTful security approaches
• Knowledge of application performance profiling and optimization (including code optimization) a plus
• Ability to collaborate with database programmers and UI programmers to ensure effective and efficient API
• Ability to communicate well with business as well as technical audience
• Experience of working in Agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Roles and responsibility :

• Design, implement, test, debug and document integration solutions and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets the business needs
• Lead a team of software engineers
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mind set within the team

Desirable Technical / Functional Skills :

• Experience in Cloud development (working with OneOps is a plus or other cloud webservices tool like AWS etc)
• Worked in onsite offshore model
• Flexibility in working hours

Total experience in required skill (years) :

8-12 year of IT experience

min 6 years of relevant experience

Additional Information