Lead Software Engineer - Java

Job description

Why This Role Exists We're not looking to fill a seat. We're looking for a senior engineer with a track-record of impact who's outgrown their current environment; someone technically solid but frustrated by the pace, the bureaucracy, or the lack of genuine ownership. At Transferz, we're building a global ground transportation platform serving 150+ countries, and we need engineers who treat the codebase like it's theirs. Not "responsible for", actually theirs. From architecture decisions to production incidents, from technical strategy to customer impact. We’re a decisively-small team with big ambitions and it’s key for us to operate in this way to move at our desired pace. If this sounds scary, it might not be for you. But if you find yourself aspiring for more we want to hear from you. What We're Building: A microservice platform that handles ground transportation for 10,000+ travellers daily. The challenge isn't extreme scale – it's building the right things quickly and maintaining quality as we grow. Our stack: Spring Boot 3.5, JPA/Hibernate, Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP, GraphQL. We maintain >90% test coverage because we care about shipping with confidence, not ticking complianc...