About Egen:
Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset. We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team.
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About the job:
Lead and mentor a team of application engineers, providing technical guidance, architectural direction, code reviews, and support for complex engineering challenges
Design, develop, and maintain production-ready applications and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and RESTful APIs
Apply strong knowledge of microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering principles to build scalable and resilient applications
Lead application assessment, containerization, and migration from VM-based environments to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including application configurations, secrets management, runtime readiness, and test automation
Guide application deployment and troubleshooting in Kubernetes environments, including Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines, resource configurations, and application runtime issues
Develop and implement unit, integration, and API testing strategies to ensure application quality, reliability, and production readiness
Design and maintain application data-access layers integrating SQL and NoSQL databases
Implement application observability practices, including centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
Collaborate with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to establish engineering standards, reusable solutions, and deployment best practices
Plan and coordinate engineering activities, manage technical dependencies, and guide the team in delivering application modernization initiatives across a portfolio of 500+ applications
Leverage agentic engineering tools, including Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini, to accelerate code development, modernization, testing, documentation, and engineering automation
Utilize GCP as the primary cloud platform; experience with other cloud platforms is a plus
About you:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Management, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Strong experience in application engineering, Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, application testing, and production troubleshooting
Experience with application modernization, VM-to-container migration, and cloud deployments
Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, application observability, and distributed systems
Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, and cross-team collaboration skills
Preferred: Experience with React, Angular, or Vue and integration with RESTful APIs.
