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Lead Software Engineer (Java)

RemoteFull-timeLeadWorldDevelopment

Gehtsoft USA is an elite team of engineers for whom software development is about responsibility, dedication, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. Since 1999, we have been creating custom solutions without compromise, stepping in where others lack expertise, discipline, or courage. We follow true Agile—not its distorted versions, but the way it was originally intended. No meaningless rituals or chaos—just transparency, clear weekly increments, and maximum efficiency.

Position Level: Senior \ Tech Lead
Salary range: $5,000 to $6,500 per month gross (depending on the scope and complexity of responsibilities assumed)
Work format: full time, total remote (not from Russia)

Hiring goals:

  • To increase team productivity and effectiveness, expanding the team’s capacity to take on and execute new projects without compromising existing delivery timelines
  • To improve time-to-market and client value
  • To minimize technical debt through systematic analysis and resolution

Essential Candidate Values:

  • Results-oriented
  • Strives to achieve the best possible results within current conditions
  • Open to new information, with a critical approach to personal decisions, behavior, and results
  • Ability to set goals and achieve them with minimal effort
  • Commitment to continuous improvement of processes
  • Boldness in making decisions and accountability for them
  • Respect for colleagues, the company, and clients
  • Attention to detail
  • Willingness to work on legacy projects

Responsibilities:

  • Independently develop code of any degree of complexity (including multiplatform).
  • Develop integration, load, and UI tests.
  • Be able to apply enterprise software patterns (such as Cloud Design Patterns).
  • Help define and uphold the project’s Definition of Done.
  • Organize the development process and team workflows efficiently, and justify the chosen approach.
  • Define project’s architecture.
  • Train and mentor mid-level specialists.
  • Work closely with the Product Owner to personally oversee product quality, delivery timelines, and budget adherence.
  • Lead the user documentation development process.
  • Represent and justify the product, its architecture, development process, and technical decisions to the customer. Contribute to presale and upsale efforts.

Required Skills:

  • CI/CD (can build a pipeline)
  • Java/DB performance tuning
  • Hands-on experience with messaging systems (kafka, rabbit, activeMQ or similar)
  • ORM beyond Hibernate (jooq, mybatis)
  • Deep Java expertise
  • Docker (multistage builds, networks)
  • Comfortable UNIX user
  • Familiar with websockets and other protocols
  • Knowledgeable in Java/DB performance tuning
  • Extensive experience with distributed and low-latency systems
  • English and Russian B2+

Benefits of Working With Us:

  • Our work includes real R&D, exploring new solutions, not just routine builds.
  • Regular use of English in a real work environment (direct customer communication).
  • Engaging, complex domains with tight deadlines and high uncertainty, ideal for applying the Cynefin framework.
  • An interdisciplinary approach and a broad professional outlook shared by every engineer on the team.

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