Java Team Lead

Forte Group is looking for a Java Team Lead to join their team, working on an enterprise-class workload automation platform. The role involves leading an Agile team, acting as principal engineer, and collaborating with international teams.

• Proactively lead an Agile team towards predictable delivery with quality, following the agreed way of working and ensuring expected cadence of deliverables.
• Maintain and support collaborative culture with focus on delivering business value.
• Represent the team upfront the other teams, internal and external stakeholders, be primary contact and own communication with the client’s engineering team.
• Align the team with the other teams, identify and resolve impediments when necessary.
• Help team members to meet professional challenges, advise on best approaches, do 121s and facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Identify successor to your own and other critical roles in the team to avoid over-responsibility and protect team members from excessive stress.
• Interview candidates, provide recommendations to invite the right people into the team from both hard and soft skills perspective.
• Work with stakeholders to negotiate team goals aligned to their expectations.
• Ensure the team stays focused on and delivers against the goals, effectively adapts to changing requirements.
• Collaborate with PM/PO and Stakeholders to groom and breakdown backlog.
• Owns technical design for a sprint including high-level flow diagrams, ERD, service contracts.
• Ensures the whole team understands the technical plan, reasons for it, and adherence to it.
• Considers testability in design with focus on code determinism, abstraction, and modularity.
• Commands a broad awareness of dependent projects and considers them in design.
• Helps team members define clear, small, and testable tasks.
• Frequently thinks out loud about design with the team and a higher level design committee.
• Works with technical stakeholders at the client side to ensure team’s direction is in line with the core platform vision.
• Defines technical acceptance criteria (where necessary) for each story.
• Owns/manages the technical backlog and works with PM/PO to schedule those efforts.
• Communicates important details of the solution design to everyone on the team.
• Encourages collective code ownership through CI and promotes frequent code check-ins (daily).
• Practices and teaches unit test development.
• Addresses technical debt constantly - escalating when it becomes risky to time or quality.
• Develops with an awareness for team needs and acts as resource/mentor for junior members.
• Oversees the merge up/down process.
• Carries out root cause analysis on defects to ensure fixes are happening in the right way.
• Keeps an up-to-date local development environment to reduce risk.
• Ensures daily code check-ins (through spot checks) are happening by each member of the team.
• Employs static code analysis to identify code readability, anti-patterns, vulnerabilities & defects.
• Monitors unit level test results after code is committed and holds team to account on quality.
• Considers cyclomatic complexity of code and drives project refactors where necessary.
• Enforces transparency of the inspection process via Continuous Integration and reporting.
• Enforces the team’s Definition of Done.
• Drives and adheres to a well-defined code promotion process.
• Supports and is accountable for timely releases and adherence to release activities.
• Resolves defects in a timely and effective manner.
• Identifies tactical risks and raises/resolves issues effectively.
• Ensures that operational teams are effective during deployment (dry-run or production).
• Follows up with infrastructure to create service accounts, permissions, access rights, etc.
• Creates deployment documentation which outlines WHERE & WHAT?
• Collaborates outside of the product team to encourage a development community.
• Establishes and carries out formal and informal educational sessions (lunch & learn, etc.).
• Liaises between the team and management to assure needed skills are represented on the team.
• Encourages self-study by promoting best practices and bringing in external perspective.

• Experience leading development team in Agile environment, working in Scrum methodology
• Experience developing products that are already “in production”, release frequently and generate revenue
• Self-driven personality who cares about the team culture and takes pride in the outcome of the teamwork
• Bright and engaging with 'start-up' energy and passion
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Remote-first culture: Empowering you to work how you work best
• Global collaboration: Gain international expertise with diverse teams.
• Supportive culture: Join a friendly environment where your ideas matter.
• Impactful work: Tackle challenging projects using cutting-edge tech.
• Continuous growth: Benefit from internal tech communities, learning platform access, and financial backing for certifications.
• Career & travel support: Enjoy regular performance reviews, referral bonuses, and funded business trips.
• Vibrant community: Connect through corporate events, team building, and branded company swag.
• Flexible hourly compensation: Control your schedule, vacation planning, and budget independently.