Lead Java Developer

Job Summary 

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead - Go/Java with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle. 

 

Roles and Responsibilities 

·                Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members. 

·                Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications 

·                Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development 

·                Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies. 

·                Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions. 

·                Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability. 

·                Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance. 

·                Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes to technical planning. 

·                Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes. 

·                Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues 

·                Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards 

·                Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team 

·                Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems 

·                Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas 

·                Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents 

·                Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies. 

 

Job Qualifications 

Professional and Technical Skills: 

·                Design and implement microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) in Go/Java with clean, testable architecture. 

·                Write efficient, concurrent code using goroutines, channels, and the context package; manage timeouts/cancellation. 

·                Own service quality: unit/integration tests, benchmarks, profiling, and race detection. 

·                Integrate with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis caching and messaging Kafka/RabbitMQ. 

·                Build and ship via Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins); automate deploys and rollbacks. 

·                Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry; drive SLOs and incident RCA. 

·                Ensure security basics: TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, input validation, dependency hygiene (Go modules). 

·                Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. 

·                Experience with Code management tools. 

·                Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms. 

Job Title -  Lead Go/ Java Developer - Specialist

Management Level:  Level: 9 

Location: Kochi 

Must have skills: Go/Java 

Good to have skills: Agile Project Management 

Experience: 5-8 years of experience is required 

Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)  

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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