Lead Java Engineer

**This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.** **Skills and Responsibilities:** + Overall 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering discipline + Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) experience working with Java 8+. REST, SOAP, Micro Services and Service Oriented and Even Driven Architectures + Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) Experience working with Spring, Spring Boot, Solution Architecture, Design Patterns, Integration Frameworks, SQL, NOSQL + Experience with near/distributed caches and strategies e.g. Redis, Apache Ignite + Experience taking rotations for production support and addressing issues on time + Experience mentoring junior developers and offshore team including reviewing quality of deliverables (design, code and timelines) + Experience optimizing API performance – API resiliency, caching frameworks and streaming/messaging platforms Kafka and MQ + Deep understanding of software engineering practices, object-oriented analysis & design, design patterns, Coding modularity, Prototypes and algorithms. + Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment. + Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk + Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins + Experience with AWS is a is a plus + Experience with AL, ML, NLP is a plus + Financial services experience highly preferred.