Java Full Stack & AI Lead - Banking/Finance - Dallas TX - 3 Days a week Day one on-site

Vytwo; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work from home

Job summary

Vytwo in Dallas seeks a Java Full Stack + AI Lead to drive full-stack development across Java, Spring Boot, and Angular in a banking/finance context.

You will lead architecture decisions, oversee the SDLC, and mentor distributed teams while delivering scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs. Flexible work options described.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of Java development experience.
• Strong experience with Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Extensive front-end with Angular and RESTful API design.
• Proven leadership of full-stack projects and SDLC oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead Full-Stack application development using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Angular.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
• Coordinate globally distributed teams and manage delivery commitments.
• Develop and secure RESTful APIs and microservices; ensure scalable design.
• Drive CI/CD, DevOps practices, and release management.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Angular

Microservices

SDLC leadership

Team leadership

Onshore-offshore coordination

REST APIs

OAuth2/JWT

CI/CD

DevOps

Cloud (AWS/GCP/PCF)

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git/GitHub

Monitoring/Observability

Testing (JUnit/Mockito)

VB communication

Tools

Spring Boot

Angular

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git/GitHub

Job description

Title: Java Full Stack + AI Lead

Domain: Banking / Finance

Location: Dallas, TX - 3 days a week, Day one onsite. (Look for Local Candidates or those who are ready to relocate)

Employment type: FTE or C2H

Java / Spring Boot / Angular Technical Lead

• Lead Full-Stack application development projects using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and Angular while providing technical leadership across the entire SDLC.
• Serve as a Technical Lead responsible for solution design, architecture reviews, technical decision-making, code reviews, engineering standards, and mentoring development teams.
• Proven experience leading and coordinating globally distributed onshore-offshore teams, managing delivery commitments, stakeholder communication, resource planning, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Core Java, Advanced Java, Java 8+, Collections Framework, Multithreading, Concurrency, Exception Handling, JVM concepts, and Object-Oriented Design principles.
• Extensive experience with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Dependency Injection, Spring Batch, Spring JMS, and enterprise application development.
• Design, develop, and support RESTful APIs, Microservices, distributed systems, and scalable service-oriented architectures following modern design patterns and best practices.
• Strong understanding of application security, performance optimization, resiliency, fault tolerance, production support, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Angular including Components, Modules, Services, Routing, Dependency Injection, Lifecycle Hooks, Reactive Forms, RxJS, and reusable UI component development.
• Experience implementing front-end authentication and authorization using OAuth2, OIDC, JWT tokens, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Route Guards, and secure session management.
• Strong knowledge of Local Storage, Session Storage, Angular Interceptors, API security, centralized error handling, request/response processing, and front-end security best practices.
• Experience developing Custom Directives, reusable Services, state management solutions, API integrations, and performance-optimized Single Page Applications (SPA).
• Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, including data modeling, query optimization, performance tuning, and database integration; exposure to NoSQL databases is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar middleware technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry, GCP, AWS along with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, and release management practices using Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven, Gradle, Harness, automated deployment pipelines, and environment management.
• Experience with application monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, logging frameworks, and production monitoring solutions.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing, integration testing, API testing, JUnit, Mockito, WireMock, Selenium, TestNG, and BDD/TDD practices to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and team-building skills with the ability to balance hands-on technical contributions and delivery leadership.

Flexible work from home options available.