Position: Java Team Lead
Company: Luxoft
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

We offer:
- Modern tech stack and tools: Java 8 and 11+, RESTful microservices and GraphQL runtime; TypeScript, ReactJS for frontend applications; Docker for apps sandboxing, K8s for team namespaces; CI/CD with Jenkins build farm.
- Growth opportunities: Individual development plan, local trainings, webinars and workshops on demand, compensated conferences and certifications, participation in architecture decisions, contribution to open sourced frameworks, local Center of Excellence and Software Engineering community.
- Competitive compensation with yearly review based on professional growth and performance.
- Fun and life balance: Team and corporate team buildings, hackathons, cyber sport events, no overtimes.
- Local infrastructure: Powerful workstations, sweets and cookies, modern office, communication space, sport and relax rooms, game zone, gym in the office.
- Remote work 1 day a week (full remote on quarantine).

Summary of projects and systems: Our client is a high tech company, focusing on technology excellence. Despite it is a bank, the legacy code is limited. We strive to produce maintainable, modularized, high-quality software using modern tools and libraries, with frequent early releases and maximum automation. Our projects are related to investment in shares, derivatives and other financial products, particularly searching, analyzing, and trading securities. The team is responsible for aggregating financial data from providers, storing and transforming it and exposing via various microservices.

Our organization: We are working as Scrum teams, with 3-7 people in a team, supported by local Business Analysts. You will communicate with our client-side stakeholders on daily stand ups, as well as on the other meetings, following best practices of Agile processes. As communication tools we are using video conferences, rocket chat etc.

Responsibilities
- Participate in development and sprint planning, contribute toward the sprint goal, continually enhance understanding of the codebase and share the knowledge with the team
- Ensure proper communication and processes execution in the offshore team. Make business priorities and team processes well understood and followed by everyone. Drive continuous improvement in the team (technical, organizational)
- People management practices: hiring (partly), retention, motivation, personnel growth
- Risk management & reporting to Luxoft and client managers
- Administrative direct manager
Skills
Must have

- 4+ years of experience as Java developer and excellent knowledge of Java 8+ (incl. concurrency and multithreading), SQL, Spring Framework
- 1+ years of experience as Java Team lead
- Excellent communication skills and ability to coordinate work with client representatives based globally
- Adaptability, solid analytical and problem solving skills
Nice to have

- Knowledge of REST, ORM (JPA/Hibernate), RxJava, Spring Integration is a big plus
- Experience in Investment banking is a plus