Lead Application Engineer (Java)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vacation/PTO

Paid Holidays

Sick Leave

Parental Leave

Bereavement Leave

401(k) Employer Match

Employee Referral Bonuses

Job summary

Egen is seeking an engineering leader to guide a team of application engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining production-grade applications and microservices. You will drive architectural direction, code reviews, and modernization initiatives across a large portfolio, with a focus on cloud-native design on GCP and Kubernetes.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with platform, DevOps, and security teams, and shape testing, observability, and deployment practices to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and VM-to-container migrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of application engineers.
• Provide architectural direction, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Design, develop, and maintain production-ready applications and microservices.
• Migrate applications from VM-based environments to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Guide deployment and troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments, including Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime configuration.
• Develop and implement unit, integration, and API testing strategies.
• Design and maintain data-access layers integrating SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Implement observability practices with logging, monitoring, metrics, and tracing.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and architecture teams.
• Plan and coordinate engineering activities across a portfolio of 500+ applications.
• Leverage agentic tools to accelerate coding and modernization.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Cloud-native

Mentoring

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

About Egen:

Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset. We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team.

About the job:

• Lead and mentor a team of application engineers, providing technical guidance, architectural direction, code reviews, and support for complex engineering challenges

• Design, develop, and maintain production-ready applications and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and RESTful APIs

• Apply strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering principles to build scalable and resilient applications

• Lead application assessment, containerization, and migration from VM-based environments to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including application configurations, secrets management, runtime readiness, and test automation

• Guide application deployment and troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments, including Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, resource configurations, and application runtime issues

• Develop and implement unit, integration, and API testing strategies to ensure application quality, reliability, and production readiness

• Design and maintain application data-access layers integrating SQL and NoSQL databases

• Implement application observability practices, including centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting

• Collaborate with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to establish engineering standards, reusable solutions, and deployment best practices

• Plan and coordinate engineering activities, manage technical dependencies, and guide the team in delivering application modernization initiatives across a portfolio of 500+ applications

• Leverage agentic engineering tools, including Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini, to accelerate code development, modernization, testing, documentation, and engineering automation

• Utilize GCP as the primary cloud platform; experience with other cloud platforms is a plus

About you:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

• Strong experience in application engineering, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, application testing, and production troubleshooting

• Experience with application modernization, VM-to-container migration, and cloud deployments

• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, application observability, and distributed systems

• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills

• Preferred: Experience with React, Angular, or Vue and integration with RESTful APIs.

Compensation & Benefits:

This role is eligible for our competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to support your well‑being:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance

• Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)

• Paid Holidays

• Sick Leave

• Parental Leave

• Bereavement Leave

• 401 (k) Employer Match

• Employee Referral Bonuses

Check out our complete list of benefits here - https://egen.ai/people/#benefits

Important: All roles are subject to standard hiring verification practices, which may include background checks, employment verification, and other relevant checks.EEO and Accommodations:

Egen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Egen will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Egen welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.