Role OverviewWe're looking for an experienced, hands-on Java Lead to own the availability, resiliency, performance and day-to-day operations of a high-volume digital payments and financial services platform. 8+ years in software engineering, including at least 2 to 3 years in a Java lead role, preferably in high-throughput platforms.
Key Responsibilities • Proactive production analysis: Review logs, metrics, traces and incident trends to find recurring problems, performance drops and new risks before they affect customers
• Solutions for agile teams: Turn your findings into clear recommendations, such as code fixes, configuration changes, tuning and design improvements. Raise them as prioritized backlog items with the agile teams.
• Java troubleshooting: Find root causes through JVM tuning, heap and thread dump analysis, GC tuning, memory leak detection and connection pool tuning.
• Reliability: Define and track SLIs, SLOs and error budgets. Lead production readiness, failover and disaster recovery reviews.
• Observability: Build golden-signal dashboards, set high-percentile latency baselines (p95/p99) and tune alerting to reduce noise and route issues correctly.
• Incident management: Lead high-severity incident triage, run blameless post-mortems and RCAs, and make sure preventive actions are completed.
• Operational hygiene: Track certificates, keys, secrets and configuration dependencies. Write and maintain runbooks and recovery playbooks.
• Leadership: Mentor distributed operations teams and build reliability into planning and delivery.
Skills Java 17/21, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, SQL, Event-Driven Architecture, AI-Assisted Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets), observability and monitoring (New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch), alerting and incident management (PagerDuty, RCAs, post-mortems), CI/CD, Terraform, JMeter, AWS, Agile/Kanban.
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: 93,000 to 120,000.
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
Important Notice: Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini's discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.
