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Senior Java Backend Lead
Location: Remote Position (however, must be local to Dallas, TX or Chicago, IL and attend onsite meetings weekly).
Experience: Relevant 10+ Years of Experience
Type: Contract / Full-time Employment based on client requirements
Job Overview
Senior Java Backend Lead (Remote)
We are in search of a Senior Java Backend Lead with great skills who will take charge of driving the design and development as well as delivery of modern backend services within large-scale, cloud-enabled environments. It goes out to those technical leads willing to get their hands dirty and have deep mastery over Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and native application development on Azure or Google Cloud platforms. The perfect fit should possess sound architectural brains accompanied by awesome coding capabilities together with experience leading backend teams in highly complicated enterprise scenarios.
Senior Java Backend Lead (Remote) This position offers remote work flexibility with the need to be onsite once a week either in Dallas, TX or Chicago, IL based on the client’s location. Only locals from these areas will qualify.
Backend design & Development
Senior Java Backend Lead (Remote) Take charge of designing and developing highly scalable backend systems using Java 8+ and Spring Boot from front to back. Architect, implement, and tune microservices-based solutions for availability, performance, and security build RESTful APIs with clean interfaces—a reusable code well documented. Be hands-on in the development while leading the team to best practice implementation in code quality, and performance tuning maintainability.

2. Technical Leadership
Guide and technically lead a group of backend developers through code review and architectural review plus a knowledge-sharing session. Set up development standards, enforce coding guidelines, and make sure that everything is in line with the architectural roadmap of the organization. Work very closely with frontend engineers, DevOps, QA, architects, and product owners. Review designs and solutions proposed by team members to ensure consistency and scalability while meeting enterprise standards.
Sentence Cloud Engineering & Deployment
Design and implementation of back-end services either on Azure or GCP platforms by using in-built cloud services for computation, storage, network, and security.
Work collaboration with DevOps team members for deployment automation through CI/CD pipelines.
Balance Ensure applications are designed to follow some of the key aspects of the cloud-native best practices-including containerization and automation as well as scalability strategies.
͏Cloud Engineering & Deployment͏
Design and implement backend services either on Azure or GCP leveraging native cloud services for compute, storage, networking, and security.
Work in collaboration with DevOps team members for deployment automation using CI/CD pipelines.
͏Ensure applications by design to follow some of the key aspects of the cloud native best practices-including containerization automation as well as scalability strategies.
Cloud Engineering & Deployment
Design backend services either on Azure or GCP. Leverage native cloud for compute, storage, networking, and security.Work together with DevOps to automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines.Applications must embrace by design some of the key aspects of the cloud native best practices-including containerization automation as well as scalability strategies.
Work together with SQL and NoSQL databases to design, query, and optimize the layers for data persistence. Build strong data models that fit into microservices architecture and support applications running at high speed. Find and fix database performance problems as well as help DBAs make queries, schemas, and indexes better.
Carry out superior troubleshooting between layers of the application, encompassing API calls and microservices communication as well as any other cloud-based components.
Ensure that backend services support enterprise-grade observability logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
Production support participation on issue resolution and root cause analysis when and if required.
Major Technical Expertise (Must-Have)
10+ years progressive experience in backend engineering with a solid foundation in distributed systems.
• Java 8+ proficiency covering functional programming, concurrency, and JVM tuning at an expert level.
• Deep hands-on skills with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, dependency injection, and modular code design.
• Microservices architecture design and development experience covering inter-service communication patterns.
• REST API build and consumption experience using standard authentication and security models.
Has practical experience deploying and maintaining workloads on at least one cloud provider
Microsoft Azure or strong Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
strong>DevOps & Build Ecosystem
Solid understanding and hands-on experience with
CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
Git for version control
Maven or Gradle for build and dependency management
Experience with Docker (and Kubernetes (preferred) for containerized deployments.
* Relational Databases (SQL)—MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and others.
* NoSQL Databases—MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and others.
* Can design schema models and write optimized queries understand indexing and partitioning strategies.
Soft Skills
* Has led development teams on complex technical projects.
* Communicates well with engineering teams stakeholders and leadership.
* Analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving strength.
Able to work on their own without much supervision, make choices about technical matters, and lead projects from start to finish. Having a forward-thinking attitude with an emphasis on new ideas, growth potential, and ongoing betterment.
Preferred Qualifications
Has worked in quick-moving, Agile settings with steps for delivery.
Knows about API Gateways, service mesh tools, and event-based systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.).
Gets OAuth2, JWT, and more safety plans used in backend setups.
Cloud cost optimization and monitoring tools.
Why Opt In?
To be upfront initiatives of modern backend architecture inside a very large enterprise environment. Use the newest tools, frameworks, and cloud technologies. Enjoy remote flexibility with minimal onsite requirements. This is a growth seat with leadership and hands-on engineering opportunities. Work among smart engineers and product leaders.
Application Process
If you have backend experience at the senior level with a love for architecture, coding, and technical leadership, then please send your most recent resume together with when you are available to start work and your present location.
Send me Updated resume to sarita@tekstarusa.com
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