Backend Lead Java position.
Experience: 12+ Years
Location: Onsite Dubai (Local UAE Candidates Only)
Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days
Nationality: Indian
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Java Engineer. with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise-grade microservices architecture. This role requires strong architectural judgment, security-first thinking, and hands-on ownership of backend systems operating at scale.
As a technicalLead, you will drive architecture decisions, define integration and security standards, and ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and compliant, while remaining actively involved in core development.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Lead the design and evolution of microservices architecture usingJava (8/11/17+) and Spring Boot.
- Own end-to-end system architecture, including service boundaries, communication patterns, and failure handling.
- Define and enforce security architecture standards across services (authentication, authorization, data protection).
- Act as the technical authority for design reviews, architecture decisions, and complex integrations.
Security & Identity
- Design and implement secure API access using JWT, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and token-based authentication.
- Enforce zero-trust principles across microservices and external integrations.
- Ensure secure handling of PII and sensitive data, aligned with compliance requirements.
- Guide teams on API security, rate limiting, throttling, and abuse prevention.
Integration & API Management
- Design and govern external integrations (on-prem systems, third-party APIs, cloud services).
- Implement API management strategiesincluding versioning, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility.
- Define idempotent APIs and ensure safe retry behavior across distributed systems.
- Lead the use of API gateways for routing, authentication, rate limiting, and observability.
Event-Driven & Distributed Systems
- Architect and implement event-driven systemsusing Kafka (topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution).
- Ensure exactly-once / at-least-once processing strategies where applicable.
- Design reliable async workflows with proper retry, dead-letter, and error-handling strategies.
Development & Engineering Excellence
- Remain hands-on by developing core services, frameworks, and shared libraries.
- Enforce best practices in code quality, performance optimization, and JVM tuning.
- Conduct architecture-level and code reviews to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Mentor engineers on system design, security, and distributed systems best practices.
Required Skills & Experience
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10+ years of backend development experience with strong core Java expertise.
- Deep experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and building large-scale microservices.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, DDD, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
- Proven expertise in security architecture: JWT, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, secure API design.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems in production.
- Strong understanding of idempotency, retries, eventual consistency, and distributed system challenges.
- Experience with API management platformsand gateway-based architectures.
- Solid experience integrating on-prem systems, external APIs, and cloud services.
- Strong database knowledge (PostgreSQL/MySQL); exposure to NoSQL is a plus.
- Experience with Docker and deploying services on Kubernetes.
Preferred / Good to Have
- Cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP).
- Observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
- Experience with resilience patterns: circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting.
- Exposure to performance testing and chaos engineering.
What Makes This Role Different
- Architecture ownership without people management
- Strong focus on security, reliability, and integration
- Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technical standards
- Hands-on leadership in complex, high-scale distributed systems
