Lead Product Software Engineer - Java - Content BE Team

A Development Lead at Wolters Kluwer plays a crucial role in delivering software projects by combining technical expertise with leadership. This role involves designing, implementing, and deploying reliable, scalable, high-performance solutions, following Agile practices, and participating in architectural discussions. The lead will also be involved in developing new software, adapting existing systems, integrating local systems, solving incidents, and improving backend performance. They are expected to have a minimum of 10 years of software industry experience, including 3+ years as a technical team lead, with expertise in Java 8, Spring, REST webservices, and various datastores.

Must Have

• Design, implement, and deploy reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Follow Agile practices; participate in planning, code reviews, sprint demos.
• Actively participate in architectural discussions and ensure design patterns.
• Support production issues for related products.
• Develop and adapt software, integrate systems.
• Proactively contribute to backlog-refinement sessions.
• Solve software incidents.
• Analyze and improve backend performance.
• Extradite software and documentation.
• Plan and report progress using Agile.
• Minimum 10 years software industry experience.
• Minimum 3 years technical team lead experience.
• Proficiency in Java 8, Spring, REST webservices, datastores.
• Quickly adopt new technologies and concepts.

Good to Have

• Experience with frameworks like Spring, CXF, Hibernate.
• Experience with Test Frameworks/Tools (JUnit, EasyMock, Approval testing, SoapUI).
• Experience with Atlassian Stack (BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo).
• Experience with Docker, Amazon ECS.
• Experience with RDF triple stores / Graph databases, SPARQL.
• Experience with Agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and DevOps.

Basic Function

A Development Lead plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of software projects by combining technical expertise with leadership and management skills to guide and support their team throughout the development lifecycle. They must simultaneously be a developer by staying intimately involved in the technical work of their team, and a leader, helping to guide their team to realize their potential and further the organization’s goals. A lead developer can be thought of as a bridge between an engineering team and management. They are a senior member of the team who can give technical guidance as well as mentor developers on the team. As a manager, a lead developer needs to demonstrate leadership. They encourage their developers to operate at their top potential and work together as a true team.

Lead developers may write code themselves, but much of their time will be used in conducting code reviews of components being created by other developers. They ensure and manage day-to-day progress as their team tackles their assigned tasks. They need to have a strong understanding of the overall business priorities for their team and need to be able to advocate for what their team needs to do their job while also making sure their team delivers on what company management expects.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy solutions that are reliable, scalable, and perform at a high-level to meet the needs of our global clients.
• Following Agile practices and participating in planning games, code reviews & sprint demos.
• Actively participates in architectural discussions and ensures that designs follow the approved architectural patterns.
• Continually learn about new technologies, generate new ideas and improve the use of technology in the product.
• Supports production issues with related products.

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, or related field.

• Tasks and responsibilities:
• Development of new software and adaptation of existing software.
• Integrate local systems into the international environment.
• Take a proactive role during backlog-refinement (grooming) sessions on solutions for the requested requirements.
• Solving incidents.
• Analyze and improve the (backend) performance.
• Extradite software and documentation.
• Planning and reporting on progress in accordance with Agile.

• Experience:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years of experience as technical team lead
• Experience in working in agile teams using modern technologies like Java 8, Spring, REST webservices and different kind of datastores.
• Be able to adopt new technologies and concepts quickly and should always be interested in new upcoming tools and languages.

• Preferred experience:
• Frameworks like Spring, CXF, Hibernate
• Test Frameworks/Tools (JUnit, EasyMock, Approval testing, SoapUI)
• Atlassian Stack (BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo)
• Docker, Amazon ECS
• RDF triple stores / Graph databases, SPARQL
• Agile: Scrum, Kanban and DevOps

• Competencies:
• Strong collaboration and listening skills
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Ability to work in a distributed, international, multicultural environment
• Responsive and flexible in handling critical support issues whenever they occur
• Strong analytical skills.

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To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

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If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day.

We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world.

You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong.

About Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer reported 2023 annual revenues of €5.6 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 21,400 people worldwide.

Our customers work in industries which impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the information, software solutions, and services they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and save time.

Our expert solutions combine deep domain knowledge with technology to deliver both content and workflow automation to drive improved outcomes and productivity for our customers.

We are committed to helping professionals improve the way they do business and solve complex problems with our range of digital solutions and services, which we continuously evolve to meet their changing needs. Our 188-year legacy and portfolio represent thousands of customers worldwide.

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