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Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm helping industry-leading companies achieve digital breakthroughs and deliver for the future, today. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. An Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company 7 times, and recently recognized on the Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 list, Egen has also been recognized as a great place to work 3 times.

You will join a team of insatiably curious data engineers, software architects, and product experts who never settle for "good enough". Our Java Platform team's tech stack is based on Java8 (Spring Boot) and RESTful web services. We typically build and deploy applications as cloud-native Kubernetes microservices and integrate with scalable technologies such as Kafka in Docker container environments. Our developers work in an agile process to efficiently deliver high value data driven applications and product packages.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Have experience working and strong understanding of object-oriented programing and cloud technologies
• End to end experience delivering production ready code with Java8, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and API libraries
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing of the Spring Boot APIs.
• Strong understanding and production experience of RESTful API's and microservice architecture.
• Strong understanding of SQL databases and NoSQL databases and experience with writing abstraction layers to communicate with the databases.

Nice to have's (but not required):

• Exposure to Kotlin or other JVM programming languages
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Docker container environments
• Strong understanding and production experience working with Kafka
• Cloud Environments: AWS, GCP or Azure

Position : Lead – Java Full Stack Developer

Experience : 7 to 12 Years

Location : Kochi / Thiruvananthapuram / Remote

Notice Period : Immediate to 15 Days

Open Positions : 1

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Lead Java Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in Java (Java 21, Spring Boot, and Hibernate), Angular (v19), and AWS to lead agile scrum teams and drive end-to-end feature delivery.

Key Skills Required :

• Java 21, Spring Boot MVC, Spring Data, Hibernate, Gradle
• Angular 19, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs
• PostgreSQL / RDBMS / NoSQL
• AWS services: S3, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch
• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub), Docker
• Unit Testing (Jasmine/Karma or Jest)
• Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence
• Strong in design patterns, OOPs concepts, and performance optimization
• Excellent debugging and communication skills

Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable full stack solutions
• Lead sprint tasks, perform code reviews, and ensure code quality
• Collaborate with stakeholders and convert requirements into technical specs
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and follow DevOps/CI-CD best practices
• Guide team members and promote technical best practices

Interview Process :

1. Technical Round
2. 2–3 Technical Rounds
3. Final Technical Discussion

• Please be specific with the required skill set while sourcing profiles. We require candidates with the following skills. Front end (jQuery, HTML5, Angular JS)+ Middleware (java 8 & Above, Spring boot)

• A minimum of 3 years experience as a Technical Lead in Java., Strong experience in design and implementation of high performing and highly scalable websites/applications
• Strong experience in Spring MVC framework and experience in design patterns, unit testing etc..
• Strong experience in AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, ECS, API Gateway and using tools such as Terraform, Ansible
• Strong experience in Endeca, ATG and BCC, Solr, any Headless CMS
• Considerable experience in databases such as SQL Server/Mongo DB is an added advantage
• Good experience in JavaScript frameworks such as Angular/React/VueJS is an added advantage
• Experience in Adobe AEM is an added advantage
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to effectively communicate and translate feedback, needs and solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required

• Provide strategic thinking and leadership pertaining in cloud technologies and building scalable websites
• Provide technical leadership and guidance internally to the team and externally to management
• Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
• Collaborate within and across teams with strong teamwork orientation
• Help maintain a culture of high quality
• Showcasing excellent work ethic and strong sense of ownership of end result
• Understand the structured software development methodologies including design, development and testing in an Agile environment
• Follow all security practices and identify areas and processes where performance and scalability can be improved
• Make and justify recommendations for improvement., Participate in development of solutions in cases of new technology direction and/or proof of concepts
• Should translate business needs into technical solutions with Strong analytical, conceptual and technical skills
• Support the evaluation, selection, design, development and maintenance of the platforms.

Experience required

• Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, JSP, Spring , Struts and Web Services (SOAP and REST)

• Should have good understanding Object Oriented Design , Domain Driven Design , Database (Oracle,DB2), ORM framework like Hibernate and JavaScript framework

• Should have awareness on OWASP security vulnerabilities. Knowledge on Security tools like Fortify Checkmarx CAST SonarQube etc will be value added

• Good understanding on DevOps concept (preferably working experience on Teamcity or Jenkins or Docker)

• Ability to quickly troubleshooting and diagnosis of the application issues.

• Provide support delivery and cross functional teams

• Strong in reviewing technical design

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent customer handling skills

• Experience in OO, DI, IoC design patterns

• Recommend changes on project design concepts to improve efficiency.

• Develop design specifications, installation instructions and other system-related information.

• Verify stability, interoperability, portability, security and scalability of java system architecture.

• Evaluate current or emerging technologies to consider monetary factors of java program.

• Knowledge of Enterprise message bus

Required Skills

• Proficiency in CS concepts such as Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating systems.
• More than 2 years of experience in a development Team with very good knowledge and hands-on experience using Java technologies.
• Knowledge of Java MVC Framework Spring MVC / Spring Boot.
• Good SQL and NoSQL skills
• Knowledge of/experience developing Web APIs using RESTFUL services.
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code - preferably Java.

Good to Have

• Strong object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Participation in open source projects.
• Active involvement in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow and similar other community groups
• Hands on experience on PubSub patterns such as Kafka / RMQ
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform

Responsibilities and Duties

• You will translate high level business problems into scalable design and code.
• Create libraries & Utilities for larger consumption.
• Should understand and have knowledge on the application security practices/vulnerabilities.
• You will write performant, unit-tested code, develop object-oriented models and design data structure for new software projects taking systems aspects into account.