Java Microservices Development Lead - Vice President
Core
Architect, build, and lead engineering of mission-critical, distributed backend systems for 24x7 real-time global financial transactions and payments processing.
Role type
Vice President, Java Microservices Development Lead
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency cloud-native Java microservices and event-driven streaming architectures for real-time payments.
Domain
Financial Services / Distributed Systems / Real-time Payments
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Virtual Threads, JVM tuning, ISO 20022 protocols, AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Devin), CI/CD automation, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
Preferred skills
Master's degree, experience with reactive programming paradigms
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Git, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk
Responsibilities
Architect end-to-end development of high-throughput microservices for 24x7 transaction processing; Build event-driven streaming architectures using Apache Kafka; Champion AI-Assisted Product Development Lifecycle (AI-PDLC) across engineering squads; Construct resilient cloud-native services with centralized configuration and mTLS security; Optimize data access tiers across distributed SQL and in-memory caching; Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineering squads; Guide containerized workload deployment and management on Docker and Kubernetes.
Seniority
Executive (VP), hands-on IC with strategic leadership
