- Lead the design and development of backend services and features using Java and Spring Boot.

- Own architectural decisions for your domain document tradeoffs, defend choices, revisit when needed.

- Drive performance optimisation and ensure high availability across backend services.

- Set the technical standard in code reviews raise the bar, not just flag issues.

- Mentor junior and mid-level developers through pairing, design sessions, and structured feedback.

- Champion test-driven development (TDD) and advocate for it across the team.

- Evaluate and propose new tools, languages, or patterns when they genuinely improve outcomes including non-Java options.

- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to help the team ship with greater confidence.

- Collaborate across engineering, product, and QA to deliver complete, high-quality features.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR :

- 5 to 8 years of Java backend development experience in live, production environments.

- Deep knowledge of Java (8/17+), Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Hibernate/JPA.

- Strong API design experience REST, versioning, error handling, rate limiting, contracts.

- Hands-on experience with Oracle DB or equivalent relational databases at scale.

- Production experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ or Kafka).

- Ownership of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).

- Tech-agnostic at core open to Kotlin, Go, or whatever solves the problem best.

- A finisher: complex bugs, ambiguous requirements, and system unknowns don't stop you they focus you.

NICE TO HAVE :

- Production-level Elasticsearch experience for search or analytics workloads.

- AWS experience (EC2, SQS, S3, RDS) in a live ecommerce or high-traffic context.

- Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

- Exposure to event-driven or microservices architecture at scale.

- Prior experience in a technical lead or architect-adjacent role.