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Sr. Lead Developer

New Jersey, New Jersey, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jul 2026

About the role

Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company’s future with cloud and data. For more information, visit www.ness.com

We are problem-solvers, architects, strategists, implementors, and lifelong learners. We collaborate with each other and with our clients to help them meet their short- and long-term technology goals. Our culture is open, transparent, challenging, and fun.

We hire smart, self-starters who thrive in an open-ended environment to figure out what needs to be done and take ownership in delivering quality results

Application Lead Developer

As an Engineering Lead for the application delivery team, you will be responsible for leading a talented team of engineers (DEV&QA). You will demonstrate high technical acumen, solution design capability, and strong hands-on expertise in the development of technical solutions for complex business requirements. You will play leading role in providing the technical guidance to the team, best practices adoption, fostering collaborative & dynamic team built-up ensuring successful development and delivery of high-quality enterprise applications/systems.

Core Responsibilities (Team & Delivery Leadership):

Technical Acumen:

Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with assignments. This includes gathering and understanding requirements, technical specifications, design, architecture, implementation, unit testing, builds/deployments, and code management.
Evaluate, assess, plan, and guide technical direction and architecture decisions.

Leading Team:

Mentor, guide the development team through the process of design, estimation, development, and unit testing.
Conduct code reviews, ensure coding standards are maintained, lead the best practices adoption, and drive continuous improvement in development processes.
Lead to inspire a team of engineers, fostering a positive and productive work culture.
Be a self-starter and an excellent team player.
Stay abreast with industry trends and technological advancements and apply this knowledge to guide the team in selecting appropriate technologies and methodologies.
Provide technical guidance, support professional development, and conduct regular performance reviews in conjunction to the delivery managers.

Partnership:

Interface, collaborate and communicate effectively with business and cross functional/technical partners.
Active participation and contribution to PI, product & release planning etc.
Collaborate with onsite and offsite team members effectively.

Core Skills:

Java J2EE building web applications, spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
Java, JEE & spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
Experience with related frameworks and technologies (Hibernate, Restful services Spring JDBC, MVC etc.)
Strong experience with Microservices, Spring Boot / Spring framework, Rest API, JPA.
2-10 years of experience in web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript including ES2016+
Experience of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux and Flux
Experience with user interface design
Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha and Jest
Experience with browser based debugging and excellent troubleshooting skills
Knowledge on system architecture (N-Tire, Microservices, Cloud-native).
Strong knowledge of system design principles for scalable, high-performance, and extensible solutions for enterprise grade distributed and serv