Senior Java Engineer/Technical Lead

Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps our clients realise their product roadmaps. Product design and engineering are at the heart of our business. Our engineering teams work with clients right across the stack; UX, UI design, frontend, backend, analytics, infrastructure, operations - and everything else that goes into delivering great products.

We thrive on variety and are highly adaptable. Our teams are exposed to domains as varied as telecom billing, ad tech, securities-based lending, travel tech analytics, and many more.

Innovation is central to our mission; anticipating future client needs, analysing emerging technologies and developing new products and services.

We are now seeking to grow our technical team lead capability. That’s where you come in!

You will

• Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams

• Lead projects, features and direct work of distributed software project teams

• Work with team on design, dependencies, backlog and code maintainability

• Provide time and size estimates for project deliverables

• Provide accurate status on deliverables and risk throughout the project

• Champion best practices for software development

• Review team deliverables to ensure that quality goals are met

• Perform hands-on software development, requirements capture, specification

You may be a fit for this role if you

• Have a degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

• Have 5+ years hands-on software engineering experience using Java and popular Java frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate)

• Have experience as a team lead and are able to lead cross-functional teams

• Use agile process implementation and associated tooling

• Have organised automated testing, refactoring, source control management, continuous integration tooling

• Are comfortable with Linux/UNIX including command-line tools and scripting

• Have strong customer focus and ability to design solutions to meet their needs

• Know your way around Databases design and optimisation

• Know Amazon Web Services

• Can communicate fluently in English - both written and spoken

• Are based in Poland, Slovakia, or Hungary

• Deployed Camunda or another BPMN solution - this experience is a plus

  
  

What's in it for you?

• Remote-first approach with many team-building activities. You can work from our offices in Dublin, Poznan or Bratislava, or work on a fully remote or hybrid basis. We believe in a healthy work-life balance

• Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill. This covers courses, training, books or conferences

• We’ve a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no silos, no hierarchies and no barriers

• We focus on innovation: we run projects to evaluate new frameworks, create tools for internal use, contribute to the open source community and research new ways to use existing products in new problem domains

• Indefinite period employment contract