Java Tech Lead — Spring Boot & React

Huntington National Bank; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Engineer Lead to drive architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise Java/Spring Boot/React applications. You will mentor engineers, define APIs and microservices, and guide modernization toward cloud-enabled, API-driven platforms.

The role requires strong hands‑on coding and leadership in Agile environments, with a focus on security, performance, and scalable solutions across complex financial services workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise application development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and open-system technologies.
• Lead the development of scalable, secure, highly available, and maintainable full-stack applications and microservices.
• Define and drive technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security, engineering standards, and business objectives.
• Lead the design and implementation of RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven services, and distributed applications.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership in Java, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern open-system development.
• Evaluate existing applications and lead modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy platforms to open-system, API‑driven, cloud‑ready architectures.
• Establish and promote software engineering best practices, coding standards, design patterns, reusable components, and development methodologies.
• Review technical designs, application architecture, source code, and implementation approaches to ensure quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead technical discussions and provide recommendations on application architecture, frameworks, tools, and technology solutions.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, helping team members improve their technical skills and software engineering practices.
• Partner with architects, product owners, business analysts, DevOps engineers, QA teams, and other technology teams to deliver complex solutions.
• Break down complex business and technical requirements into actionable development tasks and provide technical estimates and implementation strategies.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, performance problems, application defects, and integration challenges.
• Ensure appropriate automated testing, including unit, integration, API, and end‑to‑end testing, is incorporated into the development lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of CI/CD, DevOps, automated deployment, infrastructure automation, and observability practices.
• Ensure applications meet enterprise requirements for security, resiliency, performance, scalability, availability, and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Coordinate technical dependencies across multiple development teams and ensure successful delivery of cross‑team initiatives.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement and develop mitigation strategies.
• Communicate technical concepts and architectural decisions effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate opportunities to improve engineering productivity, application architecture, and overall technology capabilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Java

Spring Boot

React

REST APIs

Microservices

JavaScript/TypeScript

OO concepts

SQL

Git

Automated testing

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCN

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Job description

Huntington National Bank is seeking an Engineer Lead to drive architecture, design, and delivery of enterprise Java/Spring Boot/React applications. You will mentor engineers, define APIs and microservices, and guide modernization toward cloud-enabled, API-driven platforms.

The role requires strong hands‑on coding and leadership in Agile environments, with a focus on security, performance, and scalable solutions across complex financial services workloads.