Technical Lead – Java & Enterprise Integration in Montréal

ML arteka is one of the fastest-growing IT Services and Consulting companies in Canada and serves some of the most iconic brands, including Google, Loblaws, Staples, Telus, Bell, Rogers, CIBC, BMO, CMLS, Fossil, Fitbit and more. Over the last decade, we have achieved 100% client retention and earned more than 20 notable industry recognition. This reflects our reliability in delivering what we promise and the quality we bring to every engagement.

Join our growth-driven culture and help us lead, innovate, and simplify. We are looking for team members who embody our values:

• Empathetic - we listen, we understand, and are considerate of everyone
• Persevering - we don’t give up on challenges or people and go all the way
• Inclusive - we value everyone and their perspectives
• Reliable - we deliver what we promise, and more
• Innovative - we make things better than they were yesterday

The Role: We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead – Java & Enterprise Integration to lead the day-to-day technical delivery of an enterprise integration workstream. You will provide hands-on technical leadership while managing a distributed development team, translating the Solution Architect’s designs into production-quality implementations across APIs, orchestration services, and event-driven integrations.

You will work closely with the Solution Architect and Integration Delivery Lead to ensure the team’s implementation remains aligned with the target architecture, delivery commitments, and enterprise engineering standards.

You Will:

• Lead day-to-day technical delivery for the development pod building the integration layer, balancing hands-on technical leadership with direct people management.
• Manage developers across the distributed team, including task allocation, workload balancing, mentoring, performance feedback, and day-to-day technical support.
• Translate Solution Architect designs into concrete implementation tasks, establish coding standards, and lead code reviews.
• Own the implementation of backend business APIs for the creation and retrieval of core business records and the orchestration services connecting them.
• Lead implementation of event-driven integrations, including publishing and consuming business events and synchronizing downstream systems through Kafka.
• Work with the Solution Architect on integration patterns, API contracts, and canonical data mappings and ensure implementation remains aligned with the target architecture.
• Champion modern Java and Spring Boot engineering practices, including performance, concurrency, testability, security, and cloud-native deployment.
• Identify and escalate technical risks, contribute to estimates as integration requirements evolve, and provide visibility into team progress and capacity.

Who You Are:

• You have 10+ years of backend development experience, including 4+ years in a technical lead role with responsibility for managing developers.
• You have demonstrated experience managing development teams day to day, including task allocation, capacity planning, mentoring, performance feedback, and delivery oversight.
• You remain hands-on with modern Java (Java 17/21 LTS) and are familiar with capabilities such as records, sealed classes, pattern matching, and text blocks.
• You have strong experience with Spring Boot 3.x / Spring Framework 6, building REST APIs and backend services.
• You understand modern Java concurrency, including virtual threads (Project Loom) or equivalent approaches for high-throughput, I/O-bound workloads.
• You have hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies, including producers, consumers, topics, and partitions.
• You have experience designing and implementing contract-first REST APIs and securing APIs using OAuth2/OIDC.
• You have successfully led distributed onshore/offshore development teams through complete delivery cycles, including task breakdown, code reviews, delivery cadence, and reporting.
• You are comfortable with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions and enterprise code-quality and security practices.

What to expect: Besides Competitive Salary and working for one of Canada’s Best Managed and Top 50 Technology Companies, you should expect:

• Purposeful Work: autonomy, resources, and time you need to do what matters for our clients and most importantly - you
• Positive Environment: recognition coupled with a flexible environment that celebrates diversity, inclusivity and encourages everyone to achieve their best
• Growth & Development: opportunities to grow professionally and personally through mentorship, training, and development programs
• Transparency & Trust: direction, purpose, mission, and expectations are never a secret; you will always know where you stand as well as where you are going
• Exclusive Perks: discounts on shopping, the gym, insurance, mobile phone plans, not to mention an office smoothie bar and enough coffee to make you vibrate
• Meaningful Benefits: life happens. You will get health, dental, vision, disability, travel insurance, and much more all covered by us
• Unforgettable Events: team bonding, BBQs, office lunches (pizza, always pizza), gala dinners, and any other excuse to have fun

Inclusion and equal opportunity employment: ML arteka is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status, or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodation during the application process is available upon request.

Are you ready to join the award-winning team and help us accelerate digital transformation?