Java Technical Lead/Staff Engineer

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love. 💛

WE’RE LOOKING FOR A JAVA TECHNICAL LEAD/STAFF ENGINEER TO JOIN OUR TEAM!

As a Staff Engineer/Technical Lead within Mindera you need to have an excellent understanding of how to lead a team into defining and delivering solutions iteratively and collaboratively. You will work closely with engineering teams to foster commercial awareness, ensure a clear understanding of how technical decisions impact business outcomes and inspire innovation.

When you join Mindera we welcome you into a fun and politics-free work culture, built on the principles of lean and self-organisation.

Note: Depending on the project and our clients' needs, you may get the chance to pack your bags and take off every now and then. Typically, we estimate travel time to be between 0% and 15%.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Being involved in all areas of delivery, with the technical gravitas to mentor and inspire the development team, helping your team improve by sharing your own knowledge, experience, and insights;
• Taking ownership of your code every step of the way - from development to deployment and maintenance;
• Diagnosing issues in production and devising solutions for them;
• Being an integral part of solutions design and implementation;
• Challenging business requirements, to ensure you are continuously delivering the best possible outcome;
• Harnessing innovation and driving adoption of new technologies to deliver business value;
• Contributing to shaping our online technology roadmap, influencing our future technical direction, and balancing passion with precision to deliver exceptional online service and solutions for our customers;
• Conducting technical interviews for positions within your area of expertise.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

*The tech stack you will work with depends on the project;

• Minimum 10 years of experience with Java programming language;
• Experience in any of the popular web frameworks like Spring (boot, cloud, data flow), JSF, Struts;
• Architectural styles: Microservices, Web services, SOA, REST API;
• Monitoring: Elastic Search, Cloud watch, Grafana, Prometheus;
• Code versioning tools: GIT;
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and test-driven development;
• Cloud technology experience;
• Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, NexusPro (or) similar;
• Working practices: Knowledge and experience of agile frameworks and practices: Scrum/Kanban, user stories, BDD/TDD, DevOps, Continuous Integration & Delivery, Pair Programming etc;
• Proficiency in applying design patterns effectively to develop scalable and maintainable solutions;
• Previous experience in balancing technical priorities with business needs and aligning teams with organisational goals while maintaining technical standards;
• A strong interest in understanding market dynamics and identifying customer needs to drive strategic decision-making and business growth;
• Experience in mentoring engineering teams , fostering collaboration and providing guidance when needed;
• Fluency in English.

We'd love to get to know you better!