Lead Full Stack Developer (Java) - Full-time - EMEA

Role Overview

IDCentriq provides a biometric based identity platform. We provide country-level Identity and Payment solutions that reduce fraud, and improve operating margins and user experience.

As a Lead Full Stack Developer, you will be part of our product team and will be instrumental in shaping the architecture and evolution of our consumer payments products. Your leadership will directly influence our strategic direction, maintaining alignment with our overarching business goals while pioneering advanced payment technologies and best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.

This role is not just about technical expertise. It is about collaboration, creativity, and the willingness to learn and grow together in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

· Design and develop new product features as required, ensuring robustness, reliability, performance, and scaling.
· Work with the Operations team to ensure product can be deployed, maintained, monitored, and managed per their requirements.
· Show adeptness in identifying, understanding, and solving complex technical problems. Build and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
· Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, partners, clients, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.
· Map requirements into standard services solution, identity opportunities for integrating to existing or reuse technology and provide cost effective solutions for moderate to large highly complex project/programs/initiatives
· Actively contribute to and implement an efficient automated unit testing framework.
· Lead code review and debugging of code written by others to ensure high-quality production code.
· Intake, understand, and evaluate code delivered by outsourced development teams, following a standardized process to make sure the code delivered is fit for purpose.
· Write and implement code to achieve expected outcomes as per the design and specs.
· Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve the overall operational stability of software applications and systems
· Contribute to a culture of innovation, ideas, and continuous improvement, along with a great attitude, solid communication skills, willingness to learn and collaborate
· Leads community of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Required Skills

· 6+ years of development experience using Java
· 2+ years as a team lead
· 3+ years of development experience using Jakarta Faces (JSF) or Flutter
· 2+ years of development experience using Postgres
· Experience Developing and maintaining micro and enterprise services using Spring Boot in Java, handling API transactions, data flow, and leveraging user experience design systems.
· Proven ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
· Experience in banking transactions, payments, and working with card networks or banking partners.
· Expert in Core Java and OOPs concepts
· Thorough understanding of Design Patterns
· Strong understanding and demonstrated experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and Spring Security
· Strong understanding of the implementation of API first design principle and RESTful APIs
· Strong understanding of Data Structures and Multithreaded Programming
· Strong understanding of Standard and Secure Coding practices
· Demonstrable ability to successfully work across teams utilizing strong leadership and communication skills, both written and oral, to achieve this, whether internal or external
· Strong time management and organizational skills

Nice to Have

• Experience leveraging AI agents and tools to maximize efficiency and performance