Lead Java Software Engineer

N-iX is looking for a skillful Lead Java Software Engineer to join our team. 

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts. 
N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will take part in developing software solutions that support client business needs and integrating various systems into the newly built solution. You will enjoy the latest technologies, a new product, and a friendly and professional team by your side.

Responsibilities:

• Lead high-performance, cross-functional agile team throughout the SDLC to deliver critical business features.
• Driving the entire development cycle, including design, architecture, development, and DevOps.
• Communicate with cross-functional teams about service integrations and components reusability.
• Promote best practices to improve the quality of our code and processes.
• Research and evaluate technical options to implement business requirements.
• Provide system or technical development expertise to the team.
• Write quality, maintainable code with extensive test coverage in a fast-paced professional software engineering environment.
• Work in close contact with team members and project stakeholders.
• Suggest technical and functional improvements to add value to the product and tackle technical debt.

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 4+ years of extensive Java development experience.
• 2+ years of experience as a Tech Lead in a mature agile team with 5+ team members.
• 2-3 years of Spring framework and building Spring web applications.
• Any frontend knowledge
• Understanding and experience developing and deploying microservices.
• Experience developing integration layers (using REST interfaces, Graphql, Kafka).
• Excellent design, coding, and debugging skills.
• Understanding of the application containerization and orchestration technologies.
• OOP, OOD, Design Patterns proficient.
• Knowledge of relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
• Experience with AWS services  (ECS, Lambda, Aurora).
• Excellent communication and organization skills, product-oriented mindset, focus on team results, willingness to constant personal and team improvements, leadership qualities.
• Upper-Intermediate English level is a must.
• Ukrainian language - Advanced or higher.

Would be a plus:

• Familiarity with DataDog.
• Commercial experience with frontend technologies.
• Understanding of feature flagging, A/B testing, continuous release lifecycles.