Position: Java Team Lead
Company: Forte Group
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

Forte Group has an open position for a **Java Team Lead** who will be responsible for leading a team developing Java backend for telehealth system. Your team will be a part of an international project. You will be leading a small team in Kyiv and be in touch with your colleagues from the US. 

**Project description**
The application is an interactive video-rich communications platform for scheduling telehealth visits and empowering patients in acute and post-acute care settings. Today's most configurable and personalized telehealth experience, serving leading-edge health systems worldwide. 

The backend part is a multi-node AWS hosted SpringBoot application. Data is kept in Elastic and MySQL. Hazelcast is used as a distributed cache.

**Team structure and Workflow**
The team is located in Kyiv / Ukraine, work is mostly remote with a possibility to meet in our office when necessary. Team members use Jira to manage the backlog and to prioritize work items. The team works in 2-week sprints. Communication mainly consists of typical Scrum meetings - daily stand-ups, planning, retrospective, and interpersonal communication. We use Slack and Webex Teams as online communication tools.

**Technologies and Tools**
● Programming language: Java 11
● Frameworks: Spring Boot, Hibernate, JUnit5
● Caching: Hazelcast
● Data storage: Elastic, MySQL
● Repository: Bitbucket
● Tools: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Intellij IDEA, Docker

**Responsibilities**

**As a Leader:**
● Ensure transparency of the development team workload and priorities, retain team focus on continually delivering business value
● Ensure Scrum process runs smoothly, communicate and help to resolve impediments
● Ensure features correctly estimated and released to the agreed deadlines and changes are communicated reasonably in advance
● Provide guidance and coaching to team members, help them grow professionally as well as develop personal qualities, e.g. communication skills
● Practice regular 1-2-1s with team members

**As a Senior Engineer:**
● Provide architectural solutions suitable for the existing application
● Analyze requirements, collaborate with team members to produce thoughtful software 
● Provide accurate estimates on work items
● Maintain coding standards and participate in peer code reviews
● Implement Unit testing for robustness, including edge cases and general reliability
● Facilitate engineering operation process to ensure high-quality software solutions delivering an engineering excellence

**Qualifications and Skills**
● Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
● Experience with small teams that move fast - all members are expected to achieve maximum results with minimal direction
● Strong knowledge of Java Core 
● Experience with ELK stack
● Extensive experience working with Spring, Hibernate
● SQL, understanding of relational data modeling
● Strong knowledge of OOP and design patterns
● Upper-intermediate English level

**We offer**
● Experience of direct collaboration with colleagues all around the world
● Opportunities for self-realization
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● No production support duties
● Flexible working hours
● Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports
● Free English classes