Java Tech Lead
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America2 months ago
Bern, SwitzerlandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, sustainable Java solutions for complex customer environments.
- Make architecture and design decisions and ensure long-term maintainability, scalability, testability, and quality through reviews and engineering standards.
- Provide technical guidance to project teams and customers on complex engineering, technology, and architecture questions.
- Support the professional development of development teams as a technical sparring partner.
- Contribute to proposals, feasibility studies, and solution designs.
- Work in agile project teams using Scrum or SAFe.
- Use AI-assisted software engineering tools and contribute to new approaches such as agentic engineering.
Requirements
- Completed university, ETH, or university of applied sciences degree in computer science or a related field.
- At least 7 years of experience analyzing, designing, and developing with Java, including Core Java, the Spring ecosystem, and JPA/Hibernate.
- At least 2 years of experience as a Tech Lead providing technical leadership to development teams.
- Very strong knowledge of Spring and Spring Boot, microservices architectures, and software architecture design.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, Swagger, and integration of legacy systems using SOAP and batch processes.
- Practical expertise with relational databases, complex SQL queries, and data modeling.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization and orchestration, and cloud platforms.
- Practical experience with AI and AI-assisted development, plus interest in agentic engineering approaches.
- Fluent written and spoken German and English.
Benefits
- Work in a dynamic environment with modern working practices and an emphasis on AI.
- Access training, coaching, career development, and opportunities to work across diverse projects, customers, and technologies.
- Flat hierarchy and collaborative, multicultural environment.
- 41-hour workweek with flexible working hours, possibility of home office, and at least 25 vacation days.
- Ergonomic and flexible workplace in Zurich or Bern, with work either on-site at customers or in-house.
- Benefits include mobile-phone or business-phone contributions, half-fare travel subscription, first-class business train travel, pension fund models, worldwide private non-occupational accident insurance, sickness daily allowance insurance, and fleet discounts.
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