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Diverse Lynx

Java Technical Lead

Diverse Lynx, San Diego, California, United States, 92189

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Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership - 50% • Lead the design, development, and maintenance of web applications, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and customer needs. • Provide hands-on technical leadership to the development team, including code reviews, architecture guidance, triage and problem-solving. • Mentor and guide team members to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable software. • Implement and enforce best practices for security, performance, and code quality. • Proactive ownership, assignment and delegation of critical and time-sensitive delivery of issue resolution and project tasks throughout the agile delivery life cycle. • Highly experienced with Customer-First focus when collaboration with commercial and business operation teams. • dvanced level experience with microservices architectures, development frameworks, internal and external 3rd party API integrations with Cloud-based SAAS technologies •Application Performance & Security - 30% • Monitor and optimize application performance, ensuring applications are running efficiently and reliably. • Conduct regular security assessments and performance checks to identify and resolve potential issues. • Oversee the application lifecycle, ensuring timely updates, releases, and enhancements.

Innovation, Collaboration and Continuous Improvement- 20% • Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, integrating relevant advancements into the development process. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to deliver solutions that meet customer needs. • Enhance the application development process and drive innovation within the team.

Required / Desired Knowledge, Experiences, and Skills:

Common

Technical Expertise: • Strong hands-on experience with Java development (JDK 1.7 and 1.8), including Java frameworks. • Extensive experience with AWS native services including EC2, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, ECS, CloudWatch, and Docker. • Proven experience with event-driven architectures and managing applications that rely on such paradigms. • Expertise in code repository management, including merging and unmerging with Git or Bitbucket, and managing code versions effectively. • Strong experience with third-party collaboration and communication, ensuring seamless integration and coordination with external partners. • Proficient in container management with Kubernetes, EKS, or similar frameworks, including cluster management. • Hands-on experience with Docker, including local setup, configurati on, and troubleshooting. • Extensive DevOps CI/CD experience, including hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins and Nexus Repository Manager. • Strong troubleshooting and analysis skills, with a demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues. • Experience with local setup and debugging, ensuring efficient development environments and resolving issues swiftly.

Methodologies and Practices: • Experience with Agile methodology. • Excellent communication and client interpersonal skills. • Experience with Atlassian apps (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) and IDEs such as IntelliJ. • Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog.

Additional Experience: • Core Java knowledge and experience with Hibernate, JPA. • Experience with the insurance domain (optional). • Basic knowledge of Python is a plus. • Insurance policy lifecycle expertise includes understanding the end-to-end process of policy issuance, processing, and compliance. • Payment experience covers integrating payment gateways and adhering to security standards to ensure secure transaction handling.

Specific to WSI Tower:

In-depth knowledge of frameworks such as Struts / Spring (Core, IOC, MVC, DAO, ORM modules) and JSP • Struts Framework:

o Expertise in Struts architecture, Action classes, and Form beans.

o Proficiency in configuring struts-config.xml and implementing the validation framework. • Spring Framework:

o Deep understanding of Spring Core (DI, IoC), AOP, and MVC.

o Experience with DAO support for data access and ORM modules like Hibernate or JPA. • JavaServer Pages (JSP):

o Proficient in JSP syntax, tag libraries (JSTL), and integrating JSP with servlets. • Skilled in error handling and optimizing JSP performance.

Specific to GCP/MOR Tower:

Strong experience with AWS services and Docker • mazon S3: Configuring buckets, managing data, and setting security policies. • mazon EC2: Launching, configuring instances, and managing auto-scaling and load balancing. • mazon SQS: Setting up and managing queues for asynchronous processing. • mazon SNS: Configuring topics and subscriptions for notifications and messages. • mazon ECS: Deploying and managing containerized apps with task definitions and services. • mazon Fargate: Using Fargate for serverless contain er deployments. • mazon DynamoDB: Managing NoSQL databases, including table creation and querying. • mazon CloudWatch: Monitoring resources with metrics, alarms, and logs. • WS Lambda: Creating serverless functions and managing triggers. • mazon API Gateway: Designing and deploying APIs, managing keys, and security. • Docker:Creating and managing containers, using Docker Compose and orchestration tools.

Core Java knowledge and understanding of the Spring Framework • Core Java: Strong grasp of OOP principles, collections, exception handling, and concurrency. • Spring Framework: Understanding of Dependency Injection, Spring MVC, and Spring Boot for application development.

Specific to TIPS Tower: • Hands-on experience with thick client applications includes expertise in creating and managing UIs using Java Swing components, handling events, and optimizing performance. This also covers understanding Java applets, including their lifecycle methods and integration with web pages. • Strong SQL skills and core Java knowledge involve proficiency in writing complex SQL queries, designing and optimizing databases, and a solid understanding of core Java fundamentals such as concurrency and I/O handling. • Event-driven architecture knowledge encompasses familiarity with event-driven design patterns and experience using message brokers for managing events and decoupling components. • WS services and integration experience includes working with services like S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation, along with implementing security practices and CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline. • Java Batch skills involve using batch processing frameworks to manage large-scale jobs effectively, including job configuration and error handling.

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.