Lead Software Engineer - Java, AI, Spring Boot and Kafka

Lead Software Engineer - Java, AI, Spring Boot and Kafka Chicago, IL, United States

Full time

Base Pay/Salary Chicago,IL $137,750.00-$185,000.00

131 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

Job responsibilities Executes creative software solutions, design, development, testing, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems

Develops secure and high-quality production code, reviews and debugs code written by others, and ensures solutions meet architectural standards and automated quality requirements

Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team

Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Leads a global feature team by setting technical direction, supporting pair programming, mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and partnering with Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams

Identifies opportunities to improve application stability, observability, code quality, and deployment reliability while supporting applications across development, staging, and production environments

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 8+ years of applied experience, including hands-on delivery of system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Advanced Java development experience, including Java 21+, object-oriented analysis and design, concurrency, collections, streams, records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and virtual threads

Advanced experience with Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6.x, including Spring Security, Spring Data, microservices, domain-driven design, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI 3.x, and event-driven development with Kafka

Hands-on full-stack and data experience using React 18+, TypeScript, relational databases such as Oracle SQL / PostgreSQL, and persistence frameworks including Hibernate / JPA

Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to validate AI outputs for correctness, performance, security, and responsible handling of sensitive data, combined with advanced knowledge of Agile delivery, continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Experience with React hooks, context, state-management tools, component design systems, and Next.js 14+

Cloud-native development experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including managed compute, storage, messaging, and secrets-management services

Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi

Experience with automated testing and observability tools, including JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers, Pact, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana

Experience with Redis, GraphQL, and data-pipeline technologies such as Apache Spark or Flink

Experience in production support, incident management, financial services, equipment leasing, lease accounting, asset valuation, commercial lending technology, or asset lifecycle workflows

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