Java Team Lead

About Luxoft
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 23 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications. DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.
​​​​​​​Luxoft Romania has been established since 2001. We currently have approximately 2500 employees working from different locations in the country.

The main activities within this project are:


• To develop in-house software applications to help other teams in the SDLC adoption effort and to reduce overhead and administration from the daily life of the developer (e.g.: new team onboarding, tools consolidation, internal tools automation, implementation of Agile best practices)
• To extend commercial development tools via plug-ins or external systems to accommodate the requirements of the SDLC in place (e.g.: JIRA, TeamCity, GITHub, Sonar, Confluence, Nexus)

Technologies used: Java 7 (planned is adoption of Java 8), Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate, Quartz scheduler, EHCache, JUnit, Mockito, FreeMarker, JavaScript, REST, JRebel, Unix, Oracle 11g database.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate a team of 5 developers;
• Provide technical coaching for the team members;
• Research of inner working of popular tools (e.g. GITHub, JIRA, TeamCity, FishEye/Crucible, Semmle, Sonarqube) with the purpose of establishing a process and automating them;
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and plan the work following Scrum guidelines, based on the priorities specified by the Product Owner;
• Propose, discuss with Product Owner, prioritize and sign-off on technical debt items;
• Maintain, improve and provide support for the features developed (JIRA plug-ins, internal Java based web application, automation around various REST APIs, etc.);
• Deploy and document the final artefacts resulted from the features developed.
Skills Required:
• Strong Java Enterprise development skills with a focus on web frameworks: Struts 2 (preferred but not a must) or Spring MVC or JavaServer Faces or a major Java Web framework.
• Be able to review activities or processes in the teams around them and identify potential for improving through automation and self-service tools.
• Experience working with Web Services: REST and/or SOAP and also comfortable using libraries and tools to interact with APIs and test them (e.g. Postman or any other tool)
• Experience with common standard Java frameworks and libraries like: Spring, Quartz Scheduler, JUnit, Mockito.
• Web development knowledge: Understanding HTTP, Servlet containers and MVC frameworks. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, especially jQuery.
• Unix knowledge is a must (ability to login on servers and run applications and being comfortable using a shell)
• Genuine passion for discovering new technologies and software tools that help developers become more efficient in their day-to-day work (IDEs, bug trackers, build tools, code collaboration tools, e.g.: GitHub, Intellij IDEA, JRebel, Java Chronon Debugger, TeamCity, Crucible etc.)
• Problem solving mentality: debugging, experimenting, using Java tools.
• Team player mentality: ability and willingness to teach others.
• Self-driven, self-motivated, suggests ideas, has initiative and ability to drive the project development forward.
• Experience working in Agile teams and ability to mentor others in the methodology and the reasons behind it.
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