Full Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on Fullstack Technical Lead with a technical skill mix of approximately 70% React frontend and 30% Java backend to lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise applications. The lead should have 12+ years of development experience and lead the team. The role requires strong expertise in React, JavaScript or TypeScript, reusable UI components, state management, and responsive interfaces, complemented by practical experience in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and backend integration. The Technical Lead will guide an onshore-offshore development team, own technical delivery, and collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects, and delivery partners. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential to translate business needs into technical solutions, explain design decisions, and maintain clear alignment across distributed teams.
Responsibilities
Hands-on technical delivery: Lead fullstack development with approximately 70% focus on React frontend development and 30% on Java backend services, contributing directly to complex features and technical problem-solving.
React frontend development: Lead the design and development of scalable React applications using JavaScript or TypeScript, reusable components, state management, responsive interfaces, and API integrations.
Java backend development: Develop and maintain Java and Spring Boot services, implement RESTful APIs, and support secure, reliable integration between frontend applications and backend systems.
Solution design: Translate business and functional requirements into technical designs, implementation tasks, estimates, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with business analysts and architects.
Onshore-offshore leadership: Guide a distributed development team, establish clear ownership, coordinate work across time zones, and ensure effective handoffs and consistent engineering practices.
Delivery coordination: Partner with project managers, product owners, and QA teams to plan sprint commitments, manage technical dependencies, resolve blockers, and communicate delivery risks promptly.
Agile delivery experience: Bring hands-on experience delivering software in Agile environments, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives across onshore-offshore teams.
Engineering quality: Conduct design and code reviews, enforce coding standards, and promote unit testing, integration testing, secure coding, and maintainable application design.
Performance and reliability: Diagnose issues across frontend and backend layers, improve application performance, and support root-cause analysis and production issue resolution.
Build and release: Collaborate with DevOps teams on continuous integration and delivery pipelines, automated quality checks, environment readiness, and reliable deployments.
Mentoring and guidance: Support developers through technical mentoring, knowledge-sharing sessions, and practical guidance on Java, React, debugging, and design practices.
Communication and stakeholder alignment: Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication; facilitate technical discussions, explain complex concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences, and provide concise updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
Documentation and continuous improvement: Maintain technical designs, API documentation, and operational guidance, and identify opportunities to improve development practices and onshore-offshore collaboration.'
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: 110000 to 139992
Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.
The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.
These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.
It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.
Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:
Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
Life and disability insurance
Employee assistance programs
Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
