Lead Java Developer At Clearscale

Position : Lead Java DeveloperClearScale (headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA) – AWS Premier Consulting Partner has been offering a full range of professional cloud computing services for over 10 years, including architecture design, DevOps automation, refactoring and cloud-native applications development, integration, migration, solving all sorts of security issues (from just a security check to preventing cyber-attacks) and 24/7 technical support using the best advanced technology.

The list of our customers is diverse: from governments (ClearScale is an official cloud partner of the State of California) and educational institutions (University of California, San Francisco) to well-known global brands (IBM, Samsung, GoPro, HP, Conde Nast, Carl Zeiss, etc.) The number of satisfied customers has been well over 850, some of which can be found on the company’s website in the Case Studies section.

• We were the third company to gain a new AWS competence: Applied AI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps). Less than 15 partners have this competency!
• We have obtained the status in the Database Freedom program (total less than 20 companies in)
• Proven expertise as a Managed Services Provider (total less than 16 companies in). This means that ClearScale can perform a full cycle consultancy and service: from audits, system or software development to the 24/7. You can read more about us on the company page – Managed Services.

Since the very foundation of the company, we work 100% remotely from various cities and countries.

About the role

ClearScale‘s Apllication Development team is growing rapidly and looking for an experienced Java Team Lead.

You will lead a dedicated software development team, helping us build innovative proprietary software products. This is a tight-knit team with top-performers who constantly develop and expand the capabilities of our client’s software while maintaining processes and writing clean code.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects, taking ownership of task assignments and deliverables (support risk assessment, cost and timing, dependence and impact on other solutions / projects)
• Participate in pre-sale activities and help CTO create and estimate proposals
• Design, build and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services and underlying software infrastructure
• Learn more about the domain, business requirements and technical challenges and quickly become the team’s resource in solving technical and/or business cases
• Play an active role during the project requirements gathering, design and implementation, building applications’ components and unit/acceptance tests alongside with your team
• Update and create the technical documentation (e.g. diagrams, architecture design and handover instructions and documents)
• Be familiar with your team’s strengths, weaknesses, ambitions and personalities, making sure they see the bigger picture and how important their work is to our overall success
• Act as a communication proxy for your team and transfer the important information to the appropriate people (team, CEO/CTO, Director of Development, PMs, clients)
• Be a leading participant in planning activities, internal and customer-facing design sessions, empowering team members and ensuring architectural integrity/consistency across subsystems
• Know status of your team’s work, delivering actual work schedules immediately to the management and keeping track on the technical debt, manage team’s backlog, the daily activities, project status, provide time tracking audit on the hours at the end of each billing cycle
• Manage regular team code review process and ensure compliance within company’s policies and standards
• Escalate technical project issues and concerns to Project Manager and Director of Development

This position will report to VP of Delivery, EMEA.

Required profile for job ad : Lead Java DeveloperRequired skills and experience

• At least 7 yearsof custom software application development experience
• 5+ years of using Java OR Big Data tech stack with 2+ years as people manager, team lead or technical delivery manager
• At least 2 years of experience with AWS development stack and development lifecycle tooling (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, Code Deploy etc). Alternative cloud platform (Azure or GCP) would be an advantage
• Preference towards the candidates who have hands-on experience or solid theoretical background in Big Data, AI, ML or Java domains
• Strong English skills: ability to carry on verbal discussion on technical matters (requirements, design negotiation, issue resolution) as well as to create accurate technical documentation in English
• Experience in developing enterprise-scale serverless applications
• Strong leadership skills and mentoring skills
• Experience in planning, designing, implementing and supporting applications
• Experience working in cross-functional teams
• Multitasking and prioritizing while ensuring deadlines are met with attention to detail
• Ability to think strategically about business needs, product and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
• Familiar with different teamwork approaches and methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Waterfall), understand their applicability areas and shortcomings, and have an ability to apply appropriate practices to real projects

We offer

# 1 Fair wage

• 100% remote position
• High hourly rate in USD
• Full-time, 40 hours per week contract
• Payments every 2 weeks
• Career development system – possibility to grow in a fast-developing Delivery Center in Central Europe
• Annual rate review

# 2 Professional Development

• Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation
• We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools like Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack etc
• We operate in an honest and competitive environment and we are one of the AWS’s top 10 key partners.
• The team willing to share its experience
• Paid AWS certifications: we provide training material, paid time off and examination itself
• Horizontal and vertical career growth – We keep growing and people keep growing with us