Java Tech Lead Back-End & Agentic AI

We are seeking an experienced Java Tech Lead to join a cross-functional product team responsible for a customer-facing platform. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, highly available back-end services while helping the team build secure, production-ready agentic AI capabilities.

This role requires solid technical leadership, hands-on Java expertise, solid architectural judgment, and close collaboration with Product, Front-End, Data/AI, Security, and SRE teams. You will guide engineering standards and technical decisions while remaining actively involved in design, development, and delivery.

What will you do?
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable Java back-end services
- Build clean, maintainable, testable, and production-ready software
- Own technical and architectural decisions across services and integrations
- Design distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows
- Develop agentic AI solutions that can reason, plan, use tools, access enterprise data, and execute multi-step workflows




- Integrate large language models using frameworks such as Spring AI, LangChain4j, or equivalent technologies
- Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool-calling, memory, and human-in-the-loop patterns
- Establish safeguards for AI systems, including access controls, data privacy, prompt-injection protection, output validation, and auditability
- Define evaluation approaches for AI quality, reliability, latency, safety, and cost
- Provide technical direction, mentoring, and constructive feedback to engineers
- Lead code reviews, design reviews, proof-of-concept initiatives, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Collaborate closely with Product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into pragmatic technical solutions
- Ensure high standards for performance, availability, observability, security, and operational readiness
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testi

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