Tech Lead (Java Backend)

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, providing technical guidance and support.
• Own features and technical initiatives end-to-end: design → development → testing → deployment → production support.
• Understand business and product requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Assign tasks, track progress, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of team commitments.
• Conduct technical discussions, knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentoring within the team.
• Identify technical risks, blockers, and dependencies and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following strong engineering principles.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production issues; drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Optimize application performance across CPU, memory, database queries and GC behavior.
• Participate in and drive technical design and architectural discussions.
• Contribute to architectural improvements and long-term platform scalability.
• Review code and ensure adherence to coding quality standards, design principles and engineering best practices.
• Support team members in solving complex technical and production challenges.
• Participate in resource planning, estimation and technical effort assessment for projects and features.

LEAD THE TEAM

Leadership & Management

Team leadership

• Assign work based on skills and priorities
• Set goals & expectations for team members & track deliverables.
• Provide constructive technical feedback
• Own performance reviews, evaluations, and ratings.
• Identify skill gaps and enable team growth
• Mentor engineers through complex challenges
• Manage team leave and attendance. Cross-functional leadership
• Coordinate with Product, QA, DevOps and Architecture
• Handle technical escalations and blockers
• Contribute to technical evaluations and interviews
• Support onboarding and knowledge transfer
• Balance hands-on contribution with delivery ownership

THE ENGINEERING BAR

Technical Expectations

We are looking for a Tech Lead with strong backend depth and the ability to guide implementation across the team.

BACKEND & FRAMEWORKS

• Core Java (JDK 17+)
• Spring Boot (latest releases)
• Deep JPA/Hibernate internals: entity lifecycle, caching, fetch strategies, N+1 problems and query optimization
• Design patterns and clean architecture principles
• Ability to review and guide technical implementation across the team

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & MESSAGING

• Apache Kafka (preferred) or similar pub-sub systems
• Event-driven architecture
• Distributed systems challenges: idempotency, retries and eventual consistency
• Designing and reviewing distributed, scalable backend solutions

DATABASES & PERFORMANCE

• Strong RDBMS expertise: MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Query optimization and indexing strategies
• Performance tuning and memory management
• Heap usage, GC behavior, CPU utilization and DB performance monitoring
• Ability to identify and guide resolution of application and database performance issues

OBSERVABILITY & RELIABILITY

• Distributed tracing and centralized logging
• Production monitoring and alerting systems
• Real-time production incident handling
• Leading teams during incidents and driving effective RCA and resolution

DEVOPS & CLOUD

• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
• Maven and Git
• Azure or Google Cloud Platform is a plus