Java Team Lead

• Lead and directly manage a team of five developers, with responsibility for feedback, performance, and career development, and partner with shared Quality Assurance (QA) engineers on testing and release quality.
• Own the team's delivery: set priorities with business stakeholders, plan the work, and coordinate dependencies with other IT teams (eg. DevOps, data, and security).
• Run the team's Scrum process, including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Bring additional internal applications into the team's portfolio while keeping reliable support for the business processes they serve.
• Propose, evaluate, and decide on architecture and technical solutions with the team, and set engineering standards for code quality, testing, and code review.
• Drive modernization of the application portfolio, including migrating services from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to Kubernetes, building new Angular front ends, and moving from GitFlow toward trunk-based development with feature flags.
• Stay hands-on in development, code review, and troubleshooting of Java and Spring Boot web applications and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), using AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code while keeping developers accountable for the code they ship.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development with Java, including 2+ years leading or managing a team of engineers.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot / Spring for backend web applications and REST APIs, plus JPA / Hibernate and PostgreSQL.
• Solid knowledge of web application architecture, REST API and microservice design.
• Git and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), Agile / Scrum delivery with Jira or a similar tool.
• Clear communicator who brings people along and balances technical, business, and delivery trade-offs.
• Comfortable working across established applications and modern cloud-native technology, and willing to stay hands-on.
• Czech and English at B2 level or higher.
• Travel: minimal (up to 10%).
• Work model: Hybrid, based in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, RDS / Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS / SQS, and S3.
• Kubernetes and containerized deployments, plus Infrastructure as Code.
• Angular for new front ends, and JSP for maintaining existing applications.
• QueryDSL and RabbitMQ.
• Apache Airflow (Python knowledge not required).
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code), including critical review of AI-generated code.
• Trunk-based development and feature flags.

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