Lead Technical Developer

What you’ll do:
- Cultivate a deep understanding of the portfolio of applications we utilize, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, to provide solutions to existing and future challenges.
- Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code reuse.
- Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, work with the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process.
- Provide guidance and direction to the development teams to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward.
- Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks.
- Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical issues.
- Help mentor and upskill team members
- Offer your input and expertise to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deliver high-quality code along with applicable unit and integration tests
 
Must have experience: 
- You are a proficient API developer with at least 7 years of software development experience
- You have previously led a team before for over a year 
- Fluent in Java 8+, Spring Boot 2/3, JUnit, Maven/Gradle
- Familiar with Swagger, Hibernate
- Comfortable with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP
- GitLab for repository management and CI/CD, SonarQube and Veracode for static code analysis
- Know your way around Apigee, Grafana
- Must be a great communicator and provide continues updates to the SEM. Be able to present complicated solutions to non-technical audiences in a simple and logical way.
- Comfortable with MySQL and NoSQL
 
Ideally you have experience in some of:
- Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Strong understanding of systems and microservices design
- Strong understanding of security architecture
- Some understanding of cloud architecture in GCP
- CI/CD experience 
- ES6, Typescript, NPM
- React, Redux, Thunks/Sagas
- CSS, CSS-in-JS 
- You have experience with various forms of automated testing (Playwright), such as unit, integration, end-to-end, and a11y testing;
- You are opinionated about what it takes to produce great software but remain receptive to other's ideas
- You have developed large applications in a team environment
- Experience with caching (Redis) and messaging solutions (pub/sub) is a plus!
- You are outspoken about what it takes to produce outstanding software, but remain receptive to others ideas;
- You have developed or owned the development of large applications in a team environment;
- You are experienced with software estimation, often confronted with complexity and uncertainty;
- You make decisions based on data. You are proficient with tools to measure every aspect of the application;

What can you expect from us?
Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.
 
 100% Remote opportunities
We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.
 
International Career
You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
We are represented in 2 European countries: Portugal and Belgium.
And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)

Extra Benefits & Perks
If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!
 
As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.
 
Bridge351 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to build a diverse and inclusive culture and celebrate authenticity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.