Java Engineering Tech Lead
100% Remote!!
6-month Contract to Hire!!!
**W2 & C2C Rates - MUST be eligible for hire without sponsorship now OR in the future*


Overview:?? 
Our Client, a national mortgage origination and servicing company, is seeking an stellar Java Engineering Tech Lead to join their team! This is an incredible opportunity to join a growing and innovative organization!
This is a contract to hire opportunity and would look to convert fulltime after 6 months.
This position and is 100% REMOTE.
 
Job Summary:?? 
The Java Engineering Tech Lead is a combination of a Sr. Developer/Team Lead. Must be strong technically with a capability to be a potential architect as well as the ability to lead small teams.  Will work with the Manager of Application Development to help manage the overall book of application development projects.

Responsibilities:

• An experienced senior developer responsible for leading a development project teams
• Provide hands on development and mentoring as necessary for other members of the development team
• Coding approximately 30% of the time
• Define high level application designs
• Establish technical vision and works with developers to turn it into reality
• Work with various business owners to understand business needs
• Ability to communicate to business in easy to understand non-technical terms
• Translate business needs into technical specifications
• Meet with business areas to explain technical capabilities of current platform
• Meet with potential 3rd party integrators to understand possible future capabilities and integration points
• Ability to delegate and get full productivity from development team
• Ability to work on many projects in various stages concurrently
• Ability to create visual representation of a technical solution
• Broaden the technical abilities of the development team
• Participate in robust debate on technical solutions along with Application Architects
• Ability to create project plans and status reporting
• Able to find a balance between doing it right and getting it done
• Success is measured by the team’s success as much as the individual’s abilities
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Technology, Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or Business or equivalent experience
• 7+ years experience with Java/JEE, Servlet/JSP, Spring/Struts, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/Ajax, XML, Web Services SOAP/REST, Hibernate, EJB
• 2-4+ years experience at technical lead level leading a team of developers

 
Must Haves:

• At least 2 years (2-4 years) of experience serving as the Tech Lead and leading members of Software Engineering Teams
• 7+ years of Fullstack Java Development skills with Java Spring Boot, ReactJS and Ractive Native.
• Deep Understanding of OOP Principles
• 5+ years Developing Rest APIs and Microservices
• Agile/Scrum Experience
• Experience with AWS API Gateware  to create and publish APIs
• Experience with AWS SQS to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
• Experience developing applications leveraging AWS Lambda
• Experience working in a microservices environment

 
Nice to haves:

• AWS related certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AJAX Experience
• 1-2 years of Angular JS experience
• Mortgage Industry experience

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