Lead Java Engineer

Raymond James • Saint Petersburg, FL

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Developer on our Enterprise Services team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering technical solutions that power critical applications across the organization. This is not just a coding role—it’s an opportunity to shape architecture, influence technology strategy, and solve complex challenges that impact millions of transactions daily. You will own activities across all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and architectural excellence. Job Description This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.

Requirements

• Overall 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering discipline
• Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) experience working with Java 8+
• REST, SOAP, Micro Services and Service Oriented and Even Driven Architectures
• Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) Experience working with Spring, Spring Boot, Solution Architecture, Design Patterns, Integration Frameworks, SQL, NOSQL
• Experience with near/distributed caches and strategies e.g. Redis, Apache Ignite
• Experience taking rotations for production support and addressing issues on time
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, object-oriented analysis & design, design patterns, Coding modularity, Prototypes and algorithms.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk
• Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS is a is a plus
• Experience with AL, ML, NLP is a plus
• Financial services experience highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own activities across all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Shape architecture
• Influence technology strategy
• Solve complex challenges that impact millions of transactions daily
• Mentoring junior developers and offshore team including reviewing quality of deliverables (design, code and timelines)
• Optimizing API performance – API resiliency, caching frameworks and streaming/messaging platforms Kafka and MQ

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level