Lead Full Stack Java Developer

Job Title: Lead Full Stack Java Developer
Work Location: On Site in Cincinnati, Ohio (Blue Ash)
Visa Restrictions: No H1/CPT

This is a true "LEAD" position. Only submit candidates with true lead experience. 

Additional Notes:

Please read the following Job Description carefully and pay particular attention to the "Must Have" skills required. Keep in mind, strong communication skills are desired for all positions.

TOP SKILLS:
 Top 3 Must Have Skills:
• Java + Spring Boot backend leadership: Design, build, and evolve resilient REST APIs and services in production.
• React front-end leadership: Build and maintain a high-quality, maintainable React web application codebase.
• Tech lead quality multiplier: Drive engineering standards via CI/CD and mentor developers through reviews and coaching.

Tech Stack:
• React, TypeScript/JavaScript
• Java, Spring Boot (REST APIs)
• Microsoft Azure
• SQL, NoSQL
 
What You’ll Do
 Team Summary
The End-to-End Fresh team delivers technology solutions that improve the freshness of fresh foods from farm to customer, supporting produce today and potentially expanding into other fresh categories over time.

Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Lead Full Stack Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership for a modern, web-based platform that serves as the enterprise repository and system of record for fresh quality specifications. This platform enables business users to maintain specifications centrally and ensures those standards are consistently available across the enterprise (replacing manual, paper-based approaches).

In this role, you will lead both backend services development (Java/Spring) and front-end development (React). The services you build will support two primary consumers:
• An Android-based inspection application used by inspectors in the field, where specification data informs the inspection workflow.
• The web application front end used to view and manage specifications.

You will own technical design discussions, raise engineering standards, mentor developers, and deliver high-quality features across the full stack. You will partner closely with product leadership and architecture stakeholders to plan and execute work that balances delivery with security, reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Minimum Position Qualifications
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with significant hands-on coding responsibility, including Java.
• 7+ years of experience developing RESTful APIs.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, releasing, and evolving APIs in production environments.
• 5+ years of experience building modern web applications with React.
• Significant experience with the Spring ecosystem (e.g., Spring Boot; REST; persistence; integrations/messaging), including core Spring patterns (dependency injection, AOP) and security fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of SQL; experience working with both SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• 4+ years of experience with CI/CD and integrating automated testing (unit and integration).
• Proficient understanding of Git and Git-based workflows (e.g., GitHub SaaS).
• Experience building services on a cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure (preferred) or equivalent.
• Experience with Docker (or similar container technologies).
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions; strong communication and collaboration skills in an agile team environment.

Preferred Qualifications
• Strong, recent Azure experience (architecture, deployment, monitoring/operability patterns).
• Experience modernizing or improving reliability/operability of an existing production application.
• Understanding of network and security architecture concepts and applying them pragmatically (authentication/authorization, secure API patterns, data protection).
• Proven track record as a tech lead across both UI and services (hands-on delivery + mentorship + standards).