Lead Java Engineer

Title: Lead Software Engineer
# of Openings: 1
Position Type: Contract to Hire
Locations: Louisville KY
Additional Details:

6monthsContract W2
Only Visa independent candidates
ECommerce/Retailexperienceismandatory
Remote(CandidatesfromESTzoneonly)

Description:

We are seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for Delivery and Mapping systems that power delivery order awareness and real-time operational this role you will shape architecture set engineering standards mentor engineers and stay close to the work through solution design implementation guidance code reviews troubleshooting and production readiness. Experience in QSR restaurant technology last-mile delivery logistics or delivery platforms is highly desirable.

• Lead architecture and engineering direction for scalable resilient microservice platforms supporting delivery and order-awareness capabilities.
• Design build and maintain backend services using modern Java and Spring Boot.
• Guide API design asynchronous workflows event-driven integrations and real-time processing solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices for code quality testing observability resiliency security and performance.
• Design and operate cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Partner with Product Architecture QA/QE Infrastructure Security Operations and engineering teams to turn business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across onshore and offshore teams.
• Mentor engineers facilitate design discussions and help teams make sound technical decisions.
• Review designs and pull requests to improve quality and consistency across codebases.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production issues across applications cloud infrastructure networking messaging systems and third-party integrations.
• Design reliable vendor and partner integrations with strong failure recovery observability security and supportability.
• Reduce technical debt while balancing long-term architecture goals with delivery commitments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation architecture decisions system diagrams and operational guidance.
• Support production deployments large-scale rollouts and launch readiness for business-critical initiatives.

• Extensive software engineering experience including Staff Principal Lead or equivalent technical leadership experience.
• Advanced Java skills preferably Java 21 or newer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of microservices and distributed-system design including service boundaries domain-driven design REST APIs event-driven architecture asynchronous messaging idempotency resiliency security observability high availability and scalability.
• Strong experience designing cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Run or similar container platforms Pub/Sub or similar messaging technologies cloud networking IAM secret management monitoring logging observability and NoSQL or distributed data stores.
• Strong Terraform experience including designing reviewing troubleshooting and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience operating production systems with high availability scalability latency and resiliency requirements.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD automated testing containerization and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience leading technical initiatives across distributed and offshore teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without relying solely on authority.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with multiple initiatives and dependencies.

• Experience in QSR restaurant technology e-commerce fulfillment logistics last-mile delivery or order-awareness platforms.
• Experience integrating with third-party delivery providers logistics platforms mapping or routing providers or external SaaS platforms.
• Experience with real-time location tracking dispatch order lifecycle driver workflows or delivery-status processing.
• Experience with high-throughput event-driven architectures using Google Pub/Sub Kafka or similar technologies.
• Experience with multi-region or active-active cloud architectures.
• Experience applying distributed-system resiliency patterns such as graceful degradation retries circuit breakers idempotency and dead-letter handling.
• Experience with device telemetry IoT platforms real-time tracking systems embedded systems firmware or C/C is a plus.
• Experience integrating cloud services with IoT or embedded devices including telemetry device provisioning OTA firmware updates or cellular-connected devices is a plus.
  
  

Required Skills:

JavaSpring BootGCPEcommerce