Ciklum

Lead Java Engineer

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12 hours ago
Remote, BrazilStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define, evolve, and own application and platform architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data modeling, and API standards.
  • Lead architecture reviews and influence product roadmaps while balancing delivery speed, performance, maintainability, and long-term simplicity.
  • Evaluate and introduce technologies, establish design and secure-coding best practices, and create reference implementations.
  • Partner across teams on system modernization, performance tuning, data migrations, distributed systems, and complex technical challenges.
  • Guide technical strategy for multi-region global cloud deployments, including disaster recovery, availability, observability, and regulated-environment compliance.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, lead architecture guilds, and develop learning mechanisms to raise engineering standards.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in senior technical leadership or expert roles within B2B SaaS environments.
  • Strong proficiency with Java/J2EE, relational databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, React, and Vue.js.
  • Demonstrated architecture leadership and systems design expertise in scalability, reliability, and data consistency.
  • Hands-on experience with global cloud operations at scale and FedRAMP or comparable regulated compliance frameworks.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing design documents and mentoring engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, experience with shared services such as authentication and identity platforms, Kubernetes, service meshes, platform developer tools, large-scale Java/J2EE modernization, and commercial real estate software.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work mode from Brazil.
  • Company-paid medical insurance, mental health programs, and five undocumented sick-leave days per year.
  • Internal education opportunities including meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
  • Long-term employment with 20 working days of paid vacation and local bank holidays.
  • Internal Mobility Program, global projects, team-building events, and a collaborative growth environment.
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About Ciklum

1,001-5,000 employees

Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.

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