Tech Lead

Job Description

Position Title: Java Technical Lead

Position Type: Full Time, Permanent

Department: Research and Development

Reports to: R&D Manager, Indian Development Centre.

Company Background:

-CGLIA is a software development company building highly available, highly secure, cloud-based enterprise software products that helps speed the research process resulting in new drugs, new devices, and new treatments to improve the health and wellbeing of world population.

- At CGLIA, our work shows our dedication and passion for innovative quality software products that are intuitive and easy to use and exceeds every aspect of customer expectations.

- CGLIA, is the place that develops world-class professionals who would like to be innovative, creative, learn continuously, and build a solid foundation to build products that are special and delight the customer.

Job Summary:

As a Technical Manager, you will be providing the guidance to all the team members in designing, implementing and delivering the technical solutions.

Also, responsible to maintaining the existing product line with high quality and timely deliverables by working closely with product teams.

In this role, you will be hiring the new development staff, oversee each aspect of the development process, and act as a liaison between development team and upper management. Also ensures that team is fully trained and able to perform their jobs.

Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to resolve the challenges quickly.

Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to project planning and effort estimation.
• Demonstrate exceptional requirements gathering skills and support requirement gathering sessions.
• Contribute to technical design of business solutions.
• Support leadership team in development RFP’s and service offerings.
• Review and analyse relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organization function and capabilities.
• Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.
• Comply with all the relevant policies and procedures and complete all the documents that are required.
• Conducting performance reviews, handling the employee complaints
• Willing to undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as may be reasonably expected of the role and as necessary in order to achieve the objectives of the organization.

Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Skills and Knowledge)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or any equivalent degree.
• At least 8 plus years of hands on experience in developing cloud-based software along with 2 plus years of Management experience.
• Expertise with more than one of the Software Development Methodologies.
• Expertise in designing and developing cloud based high available distributed applications and must have extensive experience in object-oriented design.
• Strong hands on experience in using Java, Hibernate, Spring technology stack (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Spring security etc.) along with open source technologies.
• Experience building web and mobile applications using frontend technologies Angular (Angular 1/Angular 2), Bootstrap, Material Design, UX/UI, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Demonstrated Experience on databases like MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• An understanding on handling of large data sources. (Desirable)
• Expertise on the Code Static Analyzer tools like SonarQube, PMD and, DevOps Tools.
• Expertise in using any Unit testing Frameworks like Junit.
• Knowledge in Security related to Web Applications and mobile applications. and other open source and commercial tools.
• Demonstrable and substantial experience in leading and managing teams of software developers.
• Impeccable written English skills, and Oral communication skills along with outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Results-oriented, detail-oriented, and well organized.

Technical Manager: Requires sufficient Managerial Skills and sufficient technical skills.

Main function has to be focused on people. He or She can and should learn new things in technology, that is required for the role.

Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead Engineer (Full Stack) to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of our scalable web platforms and core application ecosystems. In this role, you will bridge the gap between front-end experiences and robust back-end systems. You will lead an agile development team through technical architecture, feature implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in both frontend and backend modern frameworks, a passion for system design, and practical experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance distributed web applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead end-to-end full-stack software development, architectural design, and system evolution.
• Backend Architecture: Design scalable, fault-tolerant backend architectures, optimizing high-volume data ingestion pipelines and processing engines.
• Frontend Excellence: Direct the development of highly responsive, intuitive, and modular user interfaces that ensure a seamless user experience.
• API & Integrations: Architect secure RESTful APIs and integrate external enterprise platforms, third-party microservices, and identity providers.
• Team Mentorship: Mentor developers, run strict code reviews, define engineering best practices, and guide sprint-level execution.
• Data & Messaging: Maintain and optimize relational, NoSQL, and time-series databases alongside message queues for real-time application events.
• Production Ownership: Own technical troubleshooting for live production bottlenecks, system latency issues, and deployment bugs.
• Documentation: Create clean technical documentation, structural architecture diagrams, and system deployment guidelines.

Required Skills

• Experience: 6+ years of software development experience with at least 2+ years leading engineering teams or owning technical delivery.
• Backend Core: Advanced hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, multithreading, and REST API development.
• Frontend Core: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js), HTML5, and responsive CSS architectures.
• Data Platforms: Proficient with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/Caching systems (Redis, MongoDB).
• Messaging Systems: Experience implementing asynchronous workflows using message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Design Patterns: Strong grasp of microservices patterns, distributed system caching, load balancing, and failover mechanisms.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience deploying workloads to Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience setting up continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Exposure to system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with equivalent exceptional hands-on full-stack engineering experience will be highly considered regardless of formal degree background.