Senior/Lead Java & Spring Boot Developer

Job Description: Senior/Lead Java & Spring Boot Developer

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior/Lead Java & Spring Boot Developer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-grade APIs with a strong focus on reusability, scalability, performance, and security. You will also play a key role in mentoring developers, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Experience in the banking or financial services sector is a strong plus, as you will be working on complex systems that require transactional integrity, high availability, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Development & Delivery
• Design, develop, and deploy Java and Spring Boot microservices for mission-critical systems.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs with internal and external systems, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Write clean, efficient, and testable code with unit and integration testing frameworks.
• Own features across the full software development lifecycle (requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, and support).
• System Architecture & Technical Design
• Contribute to architectural decisions around microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems.
• Ensure compliance with financial industry regulations (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR).
• Collaborate with architects to design applications that integrate with core banking and payment systems.
• Drive performance tuning, scalability improvements, and troubleshooting in production.
• Team Collaboration & Leadership
• Lead and mentor developers, conduct code reviews, and enforce coding standards.
• Collaborate closely with QA, DevOps, and Product teams in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Support knowledge sharing and advocate for continuous improvement.
• Help manage delivery timelines while balancing quality and performance requirements.
• Continuous Improvement & DevOps
• Work with CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, testing, and deployments.
• Monitor application health using logging and monitoring tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Ensure applications meet uptime and resilience standards critical in banking.
• Participate in incident management and root cause analysis for high-priority issues.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in Java development, with at least 2–3 years in a Senior/Lead role
• 6–10 years of experience in Spring Framework and Spring Bootßßß
• Prior work in banking, fintech, or financial services is highly desirable.

Technical Expertise

• Java (8/11/17+) – Strong OOP, concurrency, collections, and JVM internals.
• Spring Boot & Spring Framework – Expertise in microservices, REST APIs, and enterprise applications.
• Spring Cloud – Service discovery, configuration management, distributed resilience.
• Databases – SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis).
• Messaging & Streaming – Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ.
• Cloud & Containers – Deployments in AWS, Azure, or GCP with Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD & DevOps – Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Terraform/Ansible.
• Security & Compliance – OAuth2, JWT, SSO, secure API design aligned with financial industry standards.

Banking Domain Experience (Highly Desirable)

• Core Banking Systems – deposits, loans, account management.
• Payment Processing – payment gateways, ACH, SWIFT, credit card and mobile wallet integrations.
• Digital Banking Applications – mobile banking apps, online banking platforms, and API-driven ecosystems.
• Regulatory Compliance & Security – PCI-DSS, KYC/AML, fraud prevention, transaction monitoring.
• High-Performance Transaction Systems – real-time processing, high-volume data flows, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Middleware & Integrations – ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), API gateways, and legacy system modernization.