Lead Java Engineer

Ciklum

$125K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Ten years of experience, including five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups.
  • Strong knowledge of Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js).
  • Ability to navigate both systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving.
  • Proven success in setting architectural direction across multiple teams and handling complex design issues.
  • Experience with global cloud systems and FedRAMP/government cloud environments.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of mentoring engineers.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; Master's preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve the architecture across product and platform to enhance performance and maintainability.
  • Introduce and evaluate new technologies, documenting learnings and scaling adoption effectively.
  • Lead cross-team problem-solving for modernization, refactors, and major data challenges.
  • Guide multi-region cloud deployment strategies and ensure compliance with security standards.
  • Mentor engineers and coach technical leads to enhance design quality and execution.
  • Foster learning through architecture guilds, tech talks, and design workshops.
  • Drive alignment among stakeholders by making trade-offs explicit and durable.

Benefits

  • Friendly, open-door work environment among top professionals.
  • Opportunities to work on large-scale, globally impactful projects.
  • Access to tailored learning opportunities and company-paid certifications.
  • Options for internal mobility to explore diverse domains and gain experience.
  • Healthcare and insurance benefits according to the Company's Benefit Plans.
Full Job Description
Job Description

About the role:

As a Lead Java Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team, engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:
  • Own architecture across product and platform:
    • Define and evolve platform and application architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards
    • Lead architecture reviews and influence roadmaps to balance near-term delivery with long-term simplicity, maintainability, and performance
    • Identify systemic product/platform opportunities (simplification, modularization, shared services) and drive cross-team execution
  • Introduce new technologies and best practices:
    • Evaluate and introduce new technologies responsibly pilot, measure outcomes, document learnings, and scale adoption where valuable
    • Establish best practices in design, testing, secure coding, CI/CD, and production readiness; create reference implementations and templates
    • Raise engineering quality through clarity: design docs, decision records, coding standards, and measurable technical KPIs
  • Solve the hardest cross-team problems:
    • Partner across teams to unblock complex initiatives: modernization, major refactors, performance tuning, data migrations, and distributed systems challenges
    • Drive alignment across stakeholders making tradeoffs explicit and decisions durable
    • Help teams debug and resolve high-severity production issues; codify learnings into better patterns and guardrails
  • Global cloud and regulated environment leadership:
    • Guide architecture for global cloud deployments (multi-region strategy, DR, availability, and operability)
    • Support FedRAMP/government cloud certification readiness by shaping technical controls implementation plans with Security/Compliance
  • Mentor and coach across the organization:
    • Mentor engineers across teams; coach technical leads on design quality, execution, and engineering judgment
    • Build learning mechanisms: architecture guilds, tech talks, post-incident reviews, and hands-on design workshops

Requirements:
  • Technical breadth (multi-stack):
    • Ten years of overall experience, with at least five years as a Staff or Principal engineer at B2B SaaS startups
    • Strong working knowledge across: Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
    • Ability to move between systems-level architecture and hands-on problem solving, deep where needed, broad by default
    • Experience building and operating modern B2B SaaS applications with strong engineering fundamentals
  • Architecture leadership:
    • Proven success setting architectural direction across multiple teams and making durable technical decisions
    • Strong systems design skills: scalability, reliability, performance, data consistency, and operational maturity
    • Ability to drive alignment, influence roadmaps, and lead through ambiguity with pragmatic tradeoffs
  • Global cloud + FedRAMP experience:
    • Experience with global cloud systems and production operations at scale (multi-region deployments, DR/BCP, observability)
    • Experience supporting FedRAMP/government cloud certification and/or comparable regulated environments
  • Mentorship and communication:
    • Strong written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and influence across engineering, product, and leadership
    • Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers across teams, improving quality and raising the technic al bar
  • Education:
    • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
    • Master's degree preferred

Desirable:
  • Experience designing shared services (identity/auth, platform APIs) and driving adoption through developer experience improvements
  • Experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and platform tooling that improves developer productivity
  • Experience leading large-scale modernization of legacy Java/J2EE systems
  • Experience in commercial real estate software

What's in it for you?
  • Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
  • Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
  • Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
  • Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
  • Care: Healthcare, Basic Life Insurance, Short and Long-term disability insurance according to the Company's Benefit Plans

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