Technical Lead (Java)

Avanti Recruitment

Leatherhead, Surrey

7 months ago

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Avanti recruitment is currently working with a leading award-winning FinTech company based near Epsom, who are looking for a Java Technical Lead who is looking to grow into an Engineering Manager position whilst still staying hands-on.

You’ll spend 50% of your time coding, and 50% of your time on people leadership and delivery management. This role is central to a major modernisation project, moving from a legacy monolithic application to a modern microservices and cloud-based architecture.

This role will require you on-site 4 days per week, with 1 day remote working.

Your responsibilities:

Own delivery within a small, high-performing team (currently 3 developers + 1 SRE).
Stay hands-on with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and guide best practice.
Lead on system design and architecture for services and modernisation of legacy code
Provide day to day technical and people leadership (Mentoring, 1-to-1s, conflict resolution and career progression)
Implement escalation and incident management processes, ensuring resilience and reliability
Report on progress to the Head of Technology, and keep them up to date with progress reports
Act as a bridge between development, operations and other business functions (e.g. Trading, Change)

Experience required
Strong hands on coding in Java
Experience in either cloud platforms (AWS preferred), or DevOps experience Docker/Kubernetes & CI/CD Pipelines
Track record of leading teams or projects, this could be as a Tech Lead / Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager
Exposure to incident management, monitoring and resilience tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc)
Awareness of Security – dependency scanning, vulnerability management
Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with stakeholder, present updates and represent engineering in wider discussions

This role is a great blend between hands on development and leadership, and will be perfect for someone stepping into Engineering Management. The company is planning on expanding next year, so this is a great time to elevate your career.

Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus + 27 days holiday.

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