Fullstack Lead

1. Role Overview

WalkingTree is hiring a Full Stack Lead to own the design and delivery of enterprise web platforms built on Java microservices and Angular microfrontends.

You will lead a team of full-stack engineers, act as the technical voice to US-based stakeholders and customer teams, and stay hands-on in code, reviews and architecture.

The platforms you will work on are data-heavy, workflow-driven products used by operations and planning teams: real-time dashboards, rule-based decision engines, integrations with ERP and telematics systems, and event-driven backends.

Domain knowledge is picked up on the job; engineering depth and customer-facing maturity are what we hire for.

2. Job Details

3. Key Responsibilities

A. Technical Leadership

• Own the architecture of Java (Spring Boot) microservices and Angular microfrontends, including service boundaries, API contracts, shell and remote composition, and shared design systems.

• Lead design reviews, code reviews and technical decision-making; set coding standards, testing strategy and definition of done.

• Stay hands-on: build critical components, prototype solutions, and unblock the team on hard problems.

• Drive non-functional quality: performance, security, observability, resilience and scalability.

B. Delivery and Team Management

• Plan sprints, break down epics, estimate with the team, and commit to delivery dates you can keep.

• Mentor engineers, run hiring interviews, and grow senior developers into future leads.

• Own CI/CD, release readiness and production support practices with the DevOps team.

• Track risks, dependencies and technical debt, and raise them early.

C. Customer and USA Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly with US-based counterparts (product owners, architects, program managers) in regular working-hour overlaps, including daily or weekly calls, demos and sprint reviews.

• Work with customer team members to gather requirements, clarify integration points, walk through designs, and resolve issues together.

• Present architecture, progress and trade-offs clearly to both technical and business audiences.

• Communicate status, blockers and change requests in writing with clear, concise updates that a US stakeholder can act on without a follow-up call.

4. Mandatory Requirements

Candidates who do not meet the first three points below will not be shortlisted.

1. Direct USA counterpart exposure: At least 3 years of working daily with US-based clients, product owners or architects, including regular calls in US time-zone overlap, demos, and written status communication. Candidates must be able to describe specific engagements.

2. Direct customer team collaboration: Proven experience working side by side with customer engineering, QA and business team members on requirements, integrations, UAT and production issues, not only through a project manager.

3. Microservices and microfrontends as daily work: Hands-on delivery of Spring Boot microservices and Angular microfrontends in production, treated as the normal way of building, not a recent experiment.

4. Overall experience: 9 to 14 years of total software experience, with at least 5 years in Java and 4 years in Angular (version 12 or later).

5. Team leadership: At least 3 years leading a team of 5 or more engineers, with ownership of design, delivery and mentoring.

6. Communication: Strong spoken and written English, suitable for customer-facing and executive communication.

5. Technical Skills

6. Good to Have

• Experience with optimisation, forecasting or rule-engine-backed products, or with map and real-time dashboard UIs.

• Exposure to open-source, monorepo-based platforms and multi-team release management.

• Familiarity with Python-based services that your Java services consume.

• Cloud or Kubernetes certification; experience with GitOps.

• Prior experience as a technical interface on enterprise accounts in logistics, manufacturing or supply chain.

7. Behavioural Competencies

• Clear communicator who can explain a design trade-off to a US product owner and a customer developer in the same week.

• Ownership mindset: raises risks early, follows through, and does not wait to be chased.

• Calm under production pressure, with a blameless, root-cause-first approach.

• Coaches rather than dictates; builds a team that can ship without the lead in every review.

8. What Success Looks Like in the First Year

Within 90 days:

• Understands the platform, the customer landscape and the delivery rhythm.

• Is trusted as the main technical contact by the US counterparts.

Within 6 months:

– Microservice and microfrontend standards, CI/CD and review practices are documented and followed by the whole team.

Within 12 months:

• Releases are predictable.

• Customer escalations fall.

• At least one engineer has grown into a tech-lead role under you.