Lead Product Software Engineer

Lead Product Software Engineer - Java - Content BE Team

Basic Function

A Development Lead plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of software projects by combining technical expertise with leadership and management skills to guide and support their team throughout the development lifecycle. They must simultaneously be a developer by staying intimately involved in the technical work of their team, and a leader, helping to guide their team to realize their potential and further the organization’s goals. A lead developer can be thought of as a bridge between an engineering team and management. They are a senior member of the team who can give technical guidance as well as mentor developers on the team. As a manager, a lead developer needs to demonstrate leadership. They encourage their developers to operate at their top potential and work together as a true team.

Lead developers may write code themselves, but much of their time will be used in conducting code reviews of components being created by other developers. They ensure and manage day-to-day progress as their team tackles their assigned tasks. They need to have a strong understanding of the overall business priorities for their team and need to be able to advocate for what their team needs to do their job while also making sure their team delivers on what company management expects.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy solutions that are reliable, scalable, and perform at a high-level to meet the needs of our global clients. 
• Following Agile practices and participating in planning games, code reviews & sprint demos.
• Actively participates in architectural discussions and ensures that designs follow the approved architectural patterns.
• Continually learn about new technologies, generate new ideas and improve the use of technology in the product.
• Supports production issues with related products. 

Job Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, MIS, or related field.

• Tasks and responsibilities:
  • Development of new software and adaptation of existing software.
  • Integrate local systems into the international environment.
  • Take a proactive role during backlog-refinement (grooming) sessions on solutions for the requested requirements.
  • Solving incidents.
  • Analyze and improve the (backend) performance.
  • Extradite software and documentation.
  • Planning and reporting on progress in accordance with Agile.

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years of experience as technical team lead
  • Experience in working in agile teams using modern technologies like Java 8, Spring, REST webservices and different kind of datastores.
  • Be able to adopt new technologies and concepts quickly and should always be interested in new upcoming tools and languages.

• Preferred experience:

• Frameworks like Spring, CXF, Hibernate
• Test Frameworks/Tools (JUnit, EasyMock, Approval testing, SoapUI)
• Atlassian Stack (BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo)
• Docker, Amazon ECS
• RDF triple stores / Graph databases, SPARQL
• Agile: Scrum, Kanban and DevOps

• Competencies:
  • Strong collaboration and listening skills
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
  • Ability to work in a distributed, international, multicultural environment
  • Responsive and flexible in handling critical support issues whenever they occur
  • Strong analytical skills.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Experience Level

Senior Level