Lead Developer

Ness Group; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ness is seeking a seasoned Engineering Lead to drive full lifecycle development of enterprise-grade software in a fast-paced environment in New Jersey, USA. You will guide architecture, mentor teams, and ensure delivery of value through modern Java/J2EE, Spring, Microservices, REST APIs, and cloud-based solutions.

You will collaborate with onsite and offsite teams, perform design reviews, and steer adoption of best practices across CI/CD, DevOps, and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years experience as Engineering/Technical lead or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise-grade software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
• Guide technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Mentor and lead development teams through design, estimation, and testing.
• Collaborate with business partners and cross-functional teams on PI, product, and release planning.
• Perform code reviews and promote best practices in the team.

Skills

Java J2EE

Spring Framework

Microservices

Rest API

React.js

SQL

Oracle PL/SQL

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Tomcat

Cloud platforms

Job description

Overview

Location: New Jersey, NJ, United States

Date Created: Jul 13, 2026

Requisition ID: 8957

Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com

We are problem-solvers, architects, strategists, implementors, and lifelong learners. We collaborate with each other and with our clients to help them meet their short- and long-term technology goals. Our culture is open, transparent, challenging, and fun.

We hire smart, self-starters who thrive in an open-ended environment to figure out what needs to be done and take ownership in delivering quality results.

Responsibilities and Leadership

Technical Acumen

• Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with assignments. This includes gathering and understanding requirements, technical specifications, design, architecture, implementation, unit testing, builds/deployments, and code management.
• Evaluate, assess, plan, and guide technical direction and architecture decisions.

Leading Team

• Mentor, guide the development team through the process of design, estimation, development, and unit testing.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure coding standards are maintained, lead the best practices adoption, and drive continuous improvement in development processes.
• Lead to inspire a team of engineers, fostering a positive and productive work culture.
• Be a self-starter and an excellent team player.
• Stay abreast with industry trends and technological advancements and apply this knowledge to guide the team in selecting appropriate technologies and methodologies.
• Provide technical guidance, support professional development, and conduct regular performance reviews in conjunction to the delivery managers.

Partnership

• Interface, collaborate and communicate effectively with business and cross functional/technical partners.
• Active participation and contribution to PI, product & release planning etc.
• Collaborate with onsite and offsite team members effectively.

Core Skills

• Java J2EE building web applications, spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• Java, JEE & spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• Experience with related frameworks and technologies (Hibernate, Restful services Spring JDBC, MVC etc.)
• Strong experience with Microservices, Spring Boot / Spring framework, Rest API, JPA.
• Experience of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux and Flux
• Experience with user interface design
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha and Jest
• Knowledge on system architecture (N-Tier, Microservices, Cloud-native).
• Strong knowledge of system design principles for scalable, high-performance, and extensible solutions for enterprise grade distributed and services systems.
• Significant knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Experience with Oracle Web logic, Tomcat to include installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
• Working experience of Spring Boot application configuration, deployment and troubleshooting on server platforms Oracle Web logic/Tomcat/Cloud.
• Experience with API management and Cloud-based platforms and services (AWS, Google).
• Working knowledge of Dev-Ops: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development practices as well as Automation and Unit Testing.
• Strong Analytical Skills.
• Working knowledge on system observability/monitoring and alerting.
• Experience Architecting and developing large scale Enterprise applications.
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development.
• Any experience in building applications for financial industry is a plus

Education

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ Years experience as Engineering/Technical lead role.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex enterprise grade software solutions.

Why Ness

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression. At Ness, we treat our values of rigor, innovation, and partnership with the highest priority, and they are placed at the very core of our business — to guide us through our daily operations and interactions with our customers.

We offer our employees exciting and challenging projects across a diverse range of industries, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a group of forward-thinking, capable partners around the globe.

Discover Ness Digital Engineering by visiting our website www.ness.com

Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.