Lead Java Developer

Charlotte, VT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Title: Lead Java Developer

Location: Charlotte NC (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Role Summary

The Lead Java Developer will take ownership of end to end design and delivery of Java based microservices lead a team of developers and collaborate with architects and product managers to shape technical solutions. This role is both hands on and leadership oriented bridging engineering execution with architectural direction.

Key Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of scalable resilient and secure microservices and event driven distributed systems.
Drive technical decision making solution design and code quality across the team.
Guide mentor and support developers through code reviews pair programming and technical coaching.
Work with product managers architects and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Oversee performance optimization system reliability improvements and engineering best practices.
Ensure adherence to security standards compliance requirements and architectural guidelines.
Contribute to continuous improvement evaluating new technologies frameworks and patterns.
Support deployment pipelines release planning and DevOps best practices.

Required Qualifications

10 15 years of experience in Java development including 5 years leading technical teams or playing a lead developer role.
Expert level proficiency in Java 11 Spring Boot Spring Cloud and distributed application design.
Strong experience designing microservices event-driven systems and APIs.
Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL databases schema design and performance tuning.
Experience with Kafka RabbitMQ or other event streaming technologies.
Strong grounding in cloud-native development DevOps practices Docker and Kubernetes.
Excellent communication leadership and cross team collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with API gateways service mesh caching layers and distributed tracing.
Exposure to Google ADK (Agent Developer Kit) for building enterprise grade AI agents workflows and tool-augmented conversational systems.
Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as:
LangChain / LangGraph
OpenAI Assistants API
HuggingFace Transformers Agents / Autogen
Ability to design and integrate AI toolchains for workflow automation including function-calling agents task decomposition strategies and memory-enabled agent systems.
Prior experience building or integrating autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents in production-like environments (e.g. customer service agents coding agents troubleshooting agents).
Exposure to Google Vertex AI Gemini APIs Amazon Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Service for deploying and operationalizing GenAI solutions.

Title: Lead Java Developer Location: Charlotte NC (Onsite) Type: Contract Role Summary The Lead Java Developer will take ownership of end to end design and delivery of Java based microservices lead a team of developers and collaborate with architects and product managers to shape technical solutio...