Lead Software Engineer

Remote

Must-Have Skills

- Expert-level experience in

Java and

Spring Boot

- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing complex microservices architectures

- Proven experience building and supporting high-volume, high-scale REST APIs

- Strong experience in application performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting

- Solid understanding of web applications, distributed systems, and server technologies

- Proven

Technical Lead experience leading and mentoring development teams

- Experience managing and guiding junior and intermediate developers

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

- Ability to collaborate effectively with

Architects, Product Owners, Business Teams, and Technical Leads

- Experience identifying and remediating code-level security vulnerabilities





- Hands-on experience with security scanning tools such as

Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube, or Veracode

- Robust understanding of

Secure SDLC and secure coding best practices

- Experience with

CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, or similar

- Strong unit testing and automation experience using

JUnit, Mockito, and RESTAssured

- Experience leveraging

GitHub Copilot or similar AI/LLM tools for code generation, code optimization, and developer productivity

- Ability to quickly learn and understand complex business domains

Preferred Experience

- Financial Services, Banking, Retirement Services, or Insurance domain experience

- Experience working in enterprise-scale Agile environments

📌 Java Technical Lead (Toronto)
🏢 Hays
📍 Toronto