Java Team Lead v Ostrava, Česko

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About the Role & Team

IDC's Internal Tools team builds and supports the internal applications that run core parts of the
business, from HR and employee data to product, contract, and client relationship management. As Java Team Lead, Internal Tools, you will manage a growing team of developers and set how the team plans, builds, and delivers, while staying close to the code. You will guide the modernization of a mature Java and Spring Boot portfolio onto cloud-native technology, and bring additional applications into the team without disrupting the business processes they support. It is a chance to shape both a team and its technology at a company where internal tooling directly supports how IDC serves its clients.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and directly manage a team of five developers, with responsibility for feedback, performance, and career development, and partner with shared Quality Assurance (QA) engineers on testing and release quality.
• Own the team's delivery: set priorities with business stakeholders, plan the work, and coordinate dependencies with other IT teams (eg. DevOps, data, and security).
• Run the team's Scrum process, including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Bring additional internal applications into the team's portfolio while keeping reliable support for the business processes they serve.
• Propose, evaluate, and decide on architecture and technical solutions with the team, and set engineering standards for code quality, testing, and code review.
• Drive modernization of the application portfolio, including migrating services from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to Kubernetes, building new Angular front ends, and moving from GitFlow toward trunk-based development with feature flags.
• Stay hands-on in development, code review, and troubleshooting of Java and Spring Boot web applications and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), using AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code while keeping developers accountable for the code they ship.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development with Java, including 2+ years leading or managing a team of engineers.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot / Spring for backend web applications and REST APIs, plus JPA / Hibernate and PostgreSQL.
• Solid knowledge of web application architecture, REST API and microservice design.
• Git and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred), Agile / Scrum delivery with Jira or a similar tool.
• Clear communicator who brings people along and balances technical, business, and delivery trade-offs.
• Comfortable working across established applications and modern cloud-native technology, and willing to stay hands-on.
• Czech and English at B2 level or higher.
• Travel: minimal (up to 10%).
• Work model: Hybrid, based in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Nice to have

• Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, RDS / Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS / SQS, and S3.
• Kubernetes and containerized deployments, plus Infrastructure as Code.
• Angular for new front ends, and JSP for maintaining existing applications.
• QueryDSL and RabbitMQ.
• Apache Airflow (Python knowledge not required).
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code), including critical review of AI-generated code.
• Trunk-based development and feature flags.

What We Offer

• 5 weeks of holidays + extra corporate days off
• Full time, permanent position offered in hybrid model (Ostrava office, 2 - 3 days office)
• Flexibility to work from home most of the week
• Sick days
• Certain flexibility to schedule your working hours
• Cafeteria system (use points on Flexipasses, pension/life insurance, or Multisport card)
• Meal allowance

Compensation Transparency

At IDC, we are committed to fair and equitable pay practices. Employees are compensated equitably for their work, aligned with their skills and experience. Salary and incentive structures are determined through a rigorous process that considers experience, education, certifications, role-specific requirements, internal equity, and verified U.S. market data from an independent third-party partner.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IDC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons. Employment eligibility verification required. We participate in E-Verify.