Lead Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers supporting and maintaining the applications.
• Own technical design and architecture decisions for enhancements and change requests.
• Define coding standards, review code and ensure quality, security and performance.
• Plan and guide the gradual modernization of Struts modules to Spring Boot where approved.
• Own incident and problem management; ensure tickets are resolved within agreed SLAs.
• Drive root cause analysis for critical production issues and implement permanent fixes.
• Estimate effort, plan sprints and allocate work across the team.
• Manage releases and deployments through CI/CD pipelines across all environments.
• Monitor application health, performance and stability.
• Mentor and coach developers; support hiring and onboarding.
• Act as the main technical contact for the client, business analysts, QA and DevOps teams.
• Report status, risks and SLA metrics to project management.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and knowledge base.
• Contribute code to critical modules in Java, Spring Boot and Struts.
• Write and tune complex SQL and stored procedures.
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security (OAuth2/JWT) in production
• Strong hands-on experience with Struts 1.x and/or Struts 2; maintaining and modernizing legacy apps