Tech Lead (Java, API REST)

Company Description
Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customersto provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.
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Job Description
We are looking for a skilled Tech Lead / Senior Java Engineer with a strong desire to learn, innovate, and drive the technical vision of the team - you help challenge the status quo and are eager to develop new skills to help Nexthink stay on the leading edge of digital employee experience. The candidate shall be heavily motivated by both the product and the technology stack and able to produce scalable software solutions in an agile environment, while guiding the team towards technical excellence and best engineering practices.
If you are highly motivated, result-driven, and detail-oriented, you have a high sense of product ownership and consider your work done only after getting results on user behavior and business metrics, and you constantly learn and are willing to share and help others grow, we would like to know you.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of an extremely dynamic, Silicon Valley-like unicorn company. We look forward to meeting you!
You will design, build and deliver large-scale resilient and scalable distributed services that process billions of events by using modern cloud-native features and techniques. You will also provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring architectural consistency, fostering engineering excellence, and supporting strategic decision-making. Your expertise will contribute to the reliability and efficiency of our platforms, influencing both our product and engineering DevOps practices in ensuring high system availability, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities

• Implement, test, deliver, and maintain Nexthink's data importing and exporting features.
• Lead the team in defining and evolving the technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards.
• Proactively collaborate with Product Management and other Engineering stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product, security, quality, and performance.
• Craft code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
• Ship complex features and improvements.
• Handle L3 support requests (together with the rest of the team).
• Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively in the different ceremonials.
• Ensure alignment between business goals and technical execution, providing guidance during planning and delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Java developer in SaaS projects.
• Strong experience with Microservices frameworks. Micronaut framework would be a plus.
• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science (or equivalent), MSc preferred.
• Expertise with RESTful APIs and messaging systems like Kafka are strongly valued.
• Familiar with Unit, integration and E2E tests.
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
• Docker and Kubernetes are a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives or guide engineering teams is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Professional-level English spoken and written.

Additional Information
We are the pioneers and trailblazers of a global IT Market Category (DEX) that is shaping the future of how the world works, giving our customers' IT Teams total digital visibility across their enterprise. Our innovative solutions integrate real-time analytics, automation, and employee feedback across all endpoints. This enables our IT teams to solve complex technical challenges, create ever more productive workplaces, and deliver happy, satisfied employees in the digital workplace.
With over 1000 employees across 5 continents, Nexthink operates as One Team, connecting, collaborating and innovating to continuously grow. We call our employees 'Nexthinkers' and our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity is second to none. We currently have over 75 nationalities working with us, from all cultures and backgrounds, speaking many different languages.
If you are looking for a change and like a nice atmosphere, lots of challenges, and having fun while working, this is a great opportunity for you! Check what we offer:

• Permanent Contract and a competitive compensation package.
• Amazing centrally located offices near the Bernabeu Stadium.
• Private Health Insurance (Sanitas) and daily meal vouchers of 11 EUR will be entirely covered by us.
• Hybrid work model balancing office and remote work, with a structured approach for new hires to foster connections and onboarding.
• Flexible Hours and unlimited vacation (employees have unlimited paid time off on top of the 23 days of holidays we offer) plus 3 company-paid volunteer days.
• Up to 25 EUR per month for a gym subscription.
• Flexible compensation plan for childcare & public transportation.
• ‍ Reimbursement of up to 50% of the cost of English & Spanish classes.
• Fresh fruit, cookies, soft drinks and protein shakes at the offie.
• Regular company and team events like Pizza talks, Team Building activities, Christmas parties, hosting Meetups at the office and more!
• Bonuses for referring successful hires after three months of continuous employment.
• We offer a relocation package to people who are coming from another country.

Please note that not all the benefits listed above are available for temporary, contract, and internship roles. To ensure you have the most up-to-date information, we recommend checking with your Recruitment Partner.