Java Team Lead

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Java Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Java AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Java code and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow expected quality standards.

Java, Spring Boot, JVM

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Java items, identify quality issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Code review: Evaluate AI-generated Java code, Spring/backend snippets, debugging responses, algorithmic solutions, tests, architecture explanations, and step-by-step reasoning.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update contributors on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and Java-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to questions around Java syntax, OOP design, collections, streams, concurrency, and exceptions.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM inactive contributors, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional software engineering experience.
• Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Java development, backend engineering, enterprise software, JVM systems, code review, software QA, or technical mentoring.
• Strong understanding of Java fundamentals such as OOP, collections, generics, streams, lambdas, exceptions, concurrency, annotations, JVM behavior, memory management, modules/packages, and modern Java features.
• Ability to evaluate Java content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as non-compilable code, incorrect logic, poor exception handling, unsafe concurrency, or weak object modeling.