Technical Lead (Java)

Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; other location: Hanoi, Vietnam

Company

hirify.global Technologies is an AI-centric digital transformation company delivering data, AI, software architecture, and core-system modernization solutions for banking, insurance, manufacturing, and robotics clients across 20+ countries.

What you will do

• Lead engineering hygiene, code quality, technical debt reduction, and platform maintainability initiatives.
• Define improvements to engineering standards, branching and version control, release management, development governance, QA, and testing practices.
• Assess application landscapes, dependencies, integrations, and business-critical workflows to shape the target architecture and modernization roadmap.
• Recommend modernization approaches, prioritize quick wins, and support phased transformation planning and execution.
• Advise technology and business stakeholders, facilitate architecture reviews, communicate technical findings, and build alignment across teams.
• Provide technical direction and governance, mentor engineers, and promote consistent, sustainable engineering practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading modernization or transformation initiatives for large enterprise applications.
• Strong software architecture and solution design expertise, including modern application architectures and integration patterns.
• Experience improving engineering practices in complex environments, reducing technical debt, and improving platform maintainability.
• Deep expertise in Java-based enterprise applications and distributed systems.
• Strong database and data modelling knowledge, ideally in Oracle environments; experience with messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks and API-driven architectures.
• Good understanding of application security, authentication, and identity management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized platforms, and cloud-native practices.
• Experience defining engineering standards, release strategies, and development governance.
• Strong executive and stakeholder communication, consulting, problem-solving, influence, and consensus-building skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, insurance, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools and modern developer productivity practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on enterprise modernization and responsible AI-centric digital transformation projects.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Operate across both strategic planning and hands-on delivery levels.