Full Stack Java Developer & Team Lead

Job Description

Job Title- Senior Full Stack Java Developer & Team Lead

Location- Pune | Hybrid

Experience- 8+ Years

Reports To- Engineering Manager / Architect

Primary Skills- Java 8 & Java EE/J2EE, Team/Tech Lead, Spring/MVC & Hibernate/JPA, jQuery, Bootstrap & DataTables

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Java Developer & Team Lead with 8+ years of experience to lead a small development team while remaining hands-on across the full technology stack supporting enterprise applications. The role requires strong Java 8 / Java EE expertise, front-end development capabilities, enterprise application architecture knowledge, and technical leadership skills.

Experience with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), regulated industries, manufacturing, life sciences, or formula-based product environments is highly desirable.

Roles And Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor a small team of developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Own technical delivery across the full stack, including Java 8 / Java EE backend and jQuery / Bootstrap / DataTables front end.
• Drive technical decisions while balancing modernization with enterprise system stability.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and QA teams to plan work, break down requirements, and estimate effort.
• Ensure appropriate security and data-handling practices for customer, product, and regulatory information.
  
  

Hands-On Development

• Develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise applications using Java 8 and Java EE/J2EE.
• Work with MVC-based architectures involving Servlets, EJBs, DAOs, DTOs, and persistence layers.
• Develop database integrations using JPA, Hibernate, JDBC, and SQL.
• Build and support RESTful web services using Jersey / JAX-RS.
• Support applications deployed on WildFly, JBoss, Apache TomEE, or similar application servers.
• Work with MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, DocumentDB, Neo4j, and other data platforms.
• Maintain and enhance web interfaces using jQuery, Bootstrap, and DataTables.
• Troubleshoot application, database, integration, and performance issues across the technology stack.
  
  

Qualifications & Required Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java 8 and Java EE/J2EE application development.
• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or providing technical direction to development teams.
• Strong understanding of MVC architecture and enterprise application design.
• Hands-on experience with EJBs, Servlets, JPA/Hibernate, JDBC, and DAO/DTO patterns.
• Strong front-end development experience with jQuery, Bootstrap, and DataTables.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, preferably MySQL and/or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs.
• Experience with Java application servers such as WildFly, JBoss, TomEE, or similar.
• Experience with Maven and/or ANT, Git, and GitHub.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to understand complex technical and business domains.
• Ability to balance hands-on development with team leadership responsibilities.
  
  

Mandatory Skills

• Java 8
• Java EE / J2EE
• Team Lead / Tech Lead experience
• MVC / Spring
• Hibernate / JPA
• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• DataTables
• SQL / Relational Databases
• REST APIs
• Git / GitHub
• Enterprise Application Development
  
  

Good To Have Skills

• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) experience.
• Experience in regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food & beverage, cosmetics, or manufacturing.
• Experience with formula, recipe, ingredient, product specification, or regulatory data.
• Exposure to AWS RDS, DocumentDB, Neo4j, or OpenText Discovery Server/BRS.
• Experience integrating Java applications with C#/.NET services.
• Experience with BIRT Reports.
• Experience working with applications hosted on AWS.
• Experience maintaining or modernizing mature enterprise Java applications.
  
  

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE

• Lead a small team while remaining hands-on across the full stack.
• Quickly understand existing enterprise architecture and contribute without unnecessary disruption.
• Work effectively across application, database, API, and integration layers.
• Understand complex product, regulatory, and customer-data requirements.
• Balance modernization with system stability, security, and reliability.
• Translate complex business requirements into practical, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and unblock the team when required.
  
  

About Sonata Software

Sonata Software is an AI-first modernization engineering company that helps enterprises transform legacy systems into intelligent, scalable business platforms. Powered by its Platformation™ framework and Harmoni.AI platform, Sonata delivers AI-led modernization across cloud, data, AI, Dynamics, test automation, and managed services. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata has more than $1.2 billion in revenue and 6,400+ AI engineers supporting global delivery across regions including the US, UK, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, DACH, and the Nordics. With deep partnerships across Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake, Sonata helps Fortune 500 enterprises accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. For more information, please visit www.sonata-software.com .