Job Description

Job Title: Java Tech Lead Developer
About Us
"Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consulting firm. Awarded with Consultancy of the year in the British Bank Award and has been ranked Top 100 Best Companies for Women in India 2022 by . With our presence across 32 cities across globe, we support 100+ clients across banking, financial and Energy sectors. We are recognized for our deep transformation execution and delivery.
WHY JOIN CAPCO?
You will work on engaging projects with the largest international and local banks, insurance companies, payment service providers and other key players in the industry. The projects that will transform the financial services industry.
MAKE AN IMPACT
Innovative thinking, delivery excellence and thought leadership to help our clients transform their business. Together with our clients and industry partners, we deliver disruptive work that is changing energy and financial services.
#BEYOURSELFATWORK
Capco has a tolerant, open culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and creativity.
CAREER ADVANCEMENT
With no forced hierarchy at Capco, everyone has the opportunity to grow as we grow, taking their career into their own hands.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We believe that diversity of people and perspective gives us a competitive advantage.
Role Description:
YOUR ROLE
As a Tech Lead at Capco, you will play a key role in the design, implementation, and delivery of innovative technology solutions for our clients in the financial sector and beyond. You will operate at the intersection of technical expertise and team leadership, ensuring technical excellence while fostering talent development and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
As a Capco Tech Lead, your responsibilities within our client delivery teams will include:

• Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of Backend (and potentially Frontend) developers, ensuring the implementation of best practices in software engineering (code reviews, pair programming, automated testing, CI/CD, etc.) with a constant focus on quality and continuous improvement.
• Hands-on Contribution: Actively participate in all stages of development - from design and software architecture to coding, testing, and deployment - to ensure the robustness, scalability, and performance of delivered solutions.
• Expertise and Communication: Effectively communicate and explain technical decisions with clarity and pedagogy to both internal teams and clients, including non-technical stakeholders, while demonstrating the added value of proposed solutions.
• Tech Culture and Innovation: Actively contribute to the life of Capco's backend chapter and client tech communities: organizing and leading internal workshops (tech talks, brown bag lunches, coding dojos, etc.), sharing best practices, staying on top of emerging trends, and promoting engineering culture.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure the quality of deliverables by aligning with software engineering standards and leading continuous quality improvement initiatives (reducing technical debt, adopting modern standards, etc.).
• Technology Watch and Experimentation: Stay current with emerging technologies and market trends (Cloud, Data, DevOps, AI, etc.), and assess new approaches to enrich our offerings and delivery methods.
• Mentorship and Talent Development: Support the growth of team members by identifying training needs, delivering technical coaching sessions, and fostering a collaborative learning environment.

EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS

• Professional Experience

• You hold a degree from a top engineering school and have at least 5 years of experience as a Tech Lead within a tech company, a bank, or a consulting firm.
• You have a strong background in technical leadership, including managing and guiding development teams, defining technical standards, mentoring, and supporting skill development.
• You have hands-on experience with agile delivery, having worked with agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe in complex project environments.
• You have contributed to critical projects in the financial sector (banking, insurance, asset management) or in regulated environments (a plus).
• Technical skills

• Backend Development

• Advanced proficiency in Java, ideally with experience on recent versions (17+) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Security).
• Excellent knowledge of Spring Data and JPA for relational persistence management: object-relational mapping (ORM), transaction handling, and query optimization (JPQL, Criteria API).
• Strong experience in developing secure REST APIs, including authentication and authorization mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT).
• Knowledge of additional modern backend languages (Kotlin, Node.js, Go, Python, C#...) is a valuable asset.
• Distributed Architecture Design

• Expertise in microservices architecture (functional decomposition, synchronous/asynchronous inter-service communication, dependency management).
• Experience with event-driven architectures using message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Familiarity with integration patterns such as SAGA, Event Sourcing, and CQRS.
• Cloud et Containerization

• Strong experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP): cloud-native design, high availability, scalability.
• Excellent command of Docker and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Helm, Kustomize, etc.)
• Advanced Software Engineering

• Mastery of Clean Architecture principles, modular design, and strict separation of business, application, and infrastructure layers.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD): strategic design, identification of bounded contexts, and rich domain modeling.
• Consistent application of software quality standards (SOLID, DRY, KISS) and robust testing methodologies (TDD, BDD, contract testing).
• Delivery tools

• Advanced experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalents.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Database

• Strong understanding and implementation experience with both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Ability to design optimized and scalable data models aligned with business needs
• Soft Skills and Other Competencies

• Natural leadership and ability to rally teams around a shared technological vision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; capable of making technical concepts accessible to non-technical stakeholders.
• Critical thinker and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to analyze complex problems and propose pragmatic and robust solutions.
• Intellectual curiosity and a strong commitment to staying current with evolving technologies and methodologies.
• Adaptability in fast-paced environments with continuous collaboration between business and IT teams.
• Fluent in English.

If you are keen to join us, you will be part of an organization that values your contributions, recognizes your potential, and provides ample opportunities for growth. For more information, visit . Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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