Lead Java Engineer

Lead Java Engineer
San Jose, CA
Onsite
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Java Engineer with 12+ years of hands-on expertise to architect, design, and lead development of scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have deep proficiency in modern Java technologies, distributed systems, and Microservices, with a strong background in Supply Chain Order Management domain.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, who can learn on the job. They exhibit situational leadership, work collaboratively within a team, and motivate others to achieve business objectives. They should possess excellent analytical skills along with the ability to translate business requirements and opportunities into clear, precise and easy-to-read technical and functional specifications. They should have excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with both business stakeholders and technical teams.

The candidate should be willing to work from Williams Sonoma's San Jose office at least five days per week. They should collaborate with the offshore team on a daily basis and participate in regular offshore calls.

Must Have Skills:
- Expert in Java 17+
- Extensive experience implementing Design Patterns, SOLID Principles and various Microservice Patterns
- Strong experience with Spring Boot and Microservice Architecture
- Proficient in Kafka
- Hands-on with Cassandra and Solr
- Experience with Oracle or MySQL
- Experience with CI (Continuous Integration) methodologies and Tools
- Hands-on experience with AppD, ELK, Grafana - including alerts and notification setup
- Unit testing with Junit and Mockito

Nice to Have:
- Experience using Elasticsearch for transactional data storage
- Experience with Spring WebFlux to build synchronous and asynchronous Microservices

Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Specific Responsibilities
Authors, reviews and approves technical designs
Mastery of domain programming language
Engineers extensible solutions with the team in mind and can fix complex bugs
Reviews code to ensure it is functionally correct and consistent with the technical design
Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths
Accountable for complex stories and integration or business requirements
Accountable for domain dependencies and critical paths
Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
Defines useful metrics and targets for domain
Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
Innovates measurable improvements
Stabilizes emerging technologies
Achieves team consent and buy-in
Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
Sphere of influence is scrum or project development team
Actively shares through peer mentoring, shared resources and informal teachings
Teaches and mentors within team
Contributes and enforces best practices
Inspires teamwork and gently guides the Agile/project team
Assists in career development plans for engineers
Provides guidance for the work performed by contractors and delegates work
Assesses the quality of work and effectiveness of contractors
Participates in development of contractor agreements, including deliverables and SLAs