We are looking for a Java Tech Lead who still loves writing code.

You will lead a small team of 4- 6 engineers, own a couple of services end-to-end, and stay close to the keyboard reviewing PRs, fixing hard bugs, and setting the technical bar for the team.

This is not an architect-only role.

What you will actually do :

- Build and own production microservices on Java 17+, Spring Boot, and one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Spend about 60- 70% of your week writing code, reviewing PRs, and debugging.

- The rest is design, mentoring, and unblocking the team.

- Mentor 4- 6 engineers (mix of mid and junior).

- Pair with them, do design reviews, raise their coding standard.

- Own service design API contracts, data model, error handling, observability, and performance.

- Work with the product and QA team to break down features, estimate honestly, and ship on time.

- Handle production incidents when they happen root cause, write the fix, write the postmortem.

What we need you to bring :

- 9- 13 years of hands-on Java backend experience.

- Currently coding in your day job.

- Strong with Spring Boot, Spring Data, REST APIs, and at least one of: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.

- Real microservices experience you have designed, built, and run them in production.

- Not just worked on a project that had microservices.

- Solid on one cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP) deployment, monitoring, secrets, IAM basics.

- Kubernetes or ECS exposure is a plus.

- Comfortable with SQL (Postgres/MySQL) and at least one NoSQL (Mongo/DynamoDB/Redis).

- CI/CD, Git workflows, unit + integration testing as a habit, not an afterthought.

- Has actually led a team before mentored juniors, run code reviews, owned a module.

How we will screen :

- Live coding round you will write working code, not just talk about design.

- Please come prepared.

- System design round design a real microservice, including failure modes.

- Leadership conversation a few real situations from your past teams.

- Specific examples, not theory.

Nice to have (not mandatory) :

- Exposure to Kubernetes, Terraform, or Helm.

- Experience modernizing a monolith into microservices.

- Worked with global / distributed teams.