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Lead Java Developer
- highgate, england, United Kingdom
- £90 - £125 Per Hour
Job Description
We are looking for Lead Java Developers/Lead Software Engineers with strong hands‑on development experience who can also provide technical leadership and strategic direction within a software engineering team. These are not simply senior Java developer positions. Candidates must be able to demonstrate genuine technical leadership, including:
- Leading technical direction and decision‑making within engineering teams
- Providing technical guidance, mentoring and coaching to developers
- Setting and promoting engineering standards, practices and development methods
- Working closely with Architects, Principal Engineers and other technical teams
- Contributing to medium- and long-term technical strategy
- Making decisions around technology, tools, frameworks and engineering approaches
- Identifying technical risks, dependencies and skills gaps
- Driving adoption of new technologies and engineering best practice
- Designing reusable services, libraries and solutions
- Influencing stakeholders and communicating technical decisions effectively
- Strong Java development experience
- Spring Boot/Spring Framework
- AWS cloud experience
- Apache Kafka
- MongoDB
- Experience designing and developing complex, scalable software products/services
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, standards and principles
- Experience with software architecture and system design