TECH LEAD

Gerdau North America

2025-01-11

TAMPA, Florida, United States

Full-time

YOUR CONTRIBUTION:

The primary role is to work with Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the Software Development team to ensure the successful delivery of work products
Ensure technical quality and delivery of the solution, including innovating and developing new features and functionality
Ensure the architecture principles, standards and design system are applied
Manage and advocate the prioritization of technical debts resolution
Design components and application according to requirements, as well as coordinate and motivate the team while being responsible for the entire project or product
Define, advocate, and implement best practices and code standards for the team while promoting a collaborative work environment requesting code reviews and feedback from peers
Enable teams to perform tests and integration tests for the entire system in a reliable, secure, and productive manner
Identify and mitigate risks, including security risks, write postmortems for critical bugs or outage episodes, and ensure the Incident Management process is followed
Work continually to increase team productivity and reduce waste on the other end while motivating and encouraging the team to put their best foot forward, especially while under pressure
Be aware of all technologies thoroughly, especially those associated with software or application under construction
Actively promote a Code Review culture and review the team's Pull Requests, as well as share the success and failures with the team

YOUR EXPERTISE:

Customer-Centric - Focus efforts to ensure internal and external customers thrive
Technical Expertise - Understand all IT functions, cloud technologies, and services in use, and become familiar with the current direction in the infrastructure market

Simplistic Agility - Foster simplicity and agility to look for ways to streamline work and processes to become more effective and efficient while developing new ideas quickly

Accountability - Take initiative and assume personal accountability and ownership for goals, outcomes, and deadlines holding others accountable for achieving individual and organizational objectives.

YOUR CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
5 years of software development experience with full end-to-end implementations/projects preferred
Experience working in Java programming and related framework, such as Servlets, Spring, EJBs, JPA, and Hibernate
Experience working in SQL and NoSQL DBs
Knowledge of design patterns
Design and development background in microservices
Strong knowledge of concurrency, scalability, and fault-tolerant designs
Solid knowledge of application performance improvement techniques and caching solutions
Understanding of multithreaded applications and Java internals/Java tuning performance
Familiarity with Version Control Systems (i.e., SVN/Git), Project/Task Management Systems (i.e., Jira), build servers and continuous integration (i.e., Jenkins), Artifacts Repository Systems (i.e., Nexus), Maven and Ant
Knowledge of automated testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG) is a plus