Java Technical Lead
At Elwood Roberts · Dublin, Ireland
- Engineering
- Full-time
- Lead
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Job description
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Job: Java Engineer Lead
Location: North Dublin
Type: Permanent
Salary: 80,000 - 90,000
Type: Hybrid (1-2 days in the office)
We are looking for a talented Java Engineer/Architect for a hands on a hands-on architecture and delivery role based with a leading aviation business.
With this role you will lead a project but have no line management. This will change in the near future, so leadership experience is important.
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The role will support the engineering manager in leading a team of Developers and you will manage them in the future (give or take a year).
* You will play a pivotal role in the businesses digital transformation and operations tech landscape, likely contributing to:
* Owning critical backend systems like broker services and check-in kiosks (these directly impact airline operations and customer experience)
* Customer-facing systems like check-in kiosks ensuring uptime, speed, and reliability for passenger check-ins
* Integration layers (i.e. broker services) enabling communication between legacy systems, modern apps, and third-party vendors
* Potential involvement in modernising monoliths to microservices or introducing automation into deployment/release workflows
* Improving observability, system health metrics, and proactive alerting critical for operational systems in the airline industry
Setting and enforcing engineering standards, especially around:
* Code quality
* Automation (CI/CD)
* Testing practices
* Monitoring and alerting
* Making architecture decisions for large-scale, production-grade systems
* Acting as a technical advisor to senior stakeholders, translating tech challenges into business impact and pushing back when technical integrity is at risk
* Working cross-functionally with DevOps, QA, and product teams to ensure scalable, stable systems
* Strong influencing and negotiation ability.
* We are looking for people with a strong Java development background, ideally over 6 years experience).
* You will have working experience with Spring and Spring boot, AWS and some operational and observability experience and at least 1 compute (Lambda, EC2 or ECS/Fargate),
* You should have worked with noSQL or deep knowledge of databases.
For the interview, you will need some example of owning, operating and improving systems in production using the above tech stack.
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