Lead Java Engineer (Poland only)

The partner is one of the largest retail e-commerce companies in North America. 
The team is working with the set of services that are used daily by external users. Though, in scope of the cloud transformation, we aim to increase scalability, improve performance, cost, and security. In order to do this, we are rebuilding the ecosystem: some legacy services will be replaced by the new ones which will be built with a modern approach (k8s, AWS, Kafka). 
Overall, if you like to communicate with customers and explore how things work at complex infrastructure, this might be the right project for you

As a Lead Java Engineer on the Inventory Positioning team, you will be responsible for:

• Create frameworks to solve multiple business problems
• Responsible for leading design and architecture on projects, write great code
• Leads & inspires engineers within the team through design and execution
• Takes ownership of solutions, systems, or designs that span multiple teams’ work, breaking work into smaller tasks for more junior engineers to support.
• Influences design within and across teams for projects by providing guidance on software design, development & industry best practices
• Diagnose and remedy performance or security issues  
• Facilitates cross functional troubleshooting, root cause analysis
• Surfaces potential design or delivery conflicts in the current product cycle and makes recommendations on the best options.
• Demonstrates expertise in industry standards for secure development practices 
• Expertise with telemetry solutions and products available in the industry 
• Contributes to community projects and engineering standards 
• Help mentor junior engineers

Must have:

• 7+ years of professional experience in Java programming language
• Team leadership experience
• Strong Knowledge of data structures and distributed systems
• Good written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Proficient with Java, Java Spring Boot Framework, and Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with RESTful architecture and microservices
• Experience with system design, architecture, scaling and performance testing
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS and/or GCP
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience with messaging technologies and patterns (Kafka/SQS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Terraform and testing tools
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Test automation experience at all levels (Unit, Integration, Regression, Load)
• Familiarity with ops tools, logging, and metrics (New Relic, Splunk)