Lead Software Engineer - Java

Scope

• The Lead Software Engineer’s role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Our ideal Lead Software Engineer assures on-time delivery of both functional and non-functional requirements, develops quality software according to coding standards, thoroughly understands the product architecture including code base, and can guide rest of the team to be effective and efficient. Our ideal Lead Software Engineer is highly competent on all the technical skills as required for the project and leads the team by example.
• The team currently comprises of 10+ global associates across US and India (COE) and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have technical skills and leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team.

Technical Environment

• Software: Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT, Python
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Event Hub, Azure AD, etc.)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, NOSQL

What you’ll do

• Lead a software development team of developers and testers, ensuring that the software timely addresses the business requirements
• Actively provide feedback during code reviews
• Become a subject matter expert in one or more product areas
• Understand functional, technical, and business requirements of software components
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and provide appropriate solutions
• Work closely with the architects for architectural discussions, design reviews, and technology evaluations, and make recommendations for improvement
• Contribute to and maintain technical documentation
• Provide input for the prioritization of issues in the backlog and autonomously pull issues or support other team members as appropriate
• Perform technical root cause analysis and outline corrective action for given issues
• Participate in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Translate business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders
• Take the lead in designs of individual stories and translate the design to subtasks

What we are looking for

• BTech/BS/MTech/MS degree in Engineering or a related subject
• Proven work experience in software development as a lead
• Experience of 8-10 years in software industry
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java
• Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, automation, tools and processes
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum based product development organization
• Experience in providing clear and concise status of a product development project
• Demonstrable experience with designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise cloud solutions (preferably Azure)
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture
• Experience with implementation of event driven architecture using Kafka or similar technologies
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture and design experience
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in cloud native architecture, distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and scalability, performance, disaster recovery and high availability
• Experience with DevOps, API Management including identity and access management, infrastructure-as-code and infrastructure automation