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Lead Java Developer

Date Posted: Oct 6, 2025

Job #1683802
Contract
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

603 Full Stack Engineer 

Korn Ferry has partnered with our Wilmington, DE client to hire multiple Lead Java developers for contract to hire positions.

As a Lead Software Engineer at our client, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. 
Job responsibilities 

  • Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems 
  • Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team.
  • Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others 
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems 
  • Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture 
  • Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies 
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect 
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability 
  • Experience in software development of Micro services with Java, Spring Boot, and / or Python. 
  • Hands-on experience with database programming to design and build enterprise-scale and high-volume Oracle data processing applications using packages, procedures, triggers, PL/SQL, Java Stored Procedures 
  • Knowledge of Restful Web Services, Web Sockets/JSON 
  • Agile Development experience with SCRUM or similar methodologies 
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s) 
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods 
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle 
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security 
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.) 
  • In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems 
  • Practical cloud native experience (AWS Preferably)

Nice to Have Skills:
  • Some or all of the following are nice to have skills: Cassandra, Kafka, REST, Terraform, Spring Boot, JMeter, LoadRunner, and Dynatrace can be considered as bonuses or nice to have, but not hard requirements.

Education & Work Experience

  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of work experience in an enterprise environment

Title Lead Java Developer

Location Wilington, DE

Client Industry FinTech

Compensation $65-85/hr

 

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