Lead Software Engineer - Java, rest API, No Sql, Kafka

Consistently delivers solid quality in both design and implementation and helps the team shape what is built how, in particular:

• Develops quality software (including effective test code) according to clean code principles and BY standards.
• Provides input for the prioritization of issues in the backlog and autonomously pulls issues or supports other team members as appropriate.
• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Takes the lead in designs of individual stories and translates the design to subtasks.
• Considers aspects of information security while coding and reviewing other's code.
• Keeps up to date with technology and researches latest trends in the industry.
• Actively shapes team vision and helps shape the team roadmap towards achieving it.

Additions for service-delivering teams

• Raises and resolves operational concerns during design phases.
• Produces actionable user stories to relieve operational pain.
• Plans and performs more complex changes and manages stakeholder expectations.
• Seeks out the root cause of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives to replace service requests with self-service functionality and automation.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize their choice of service and service usage to minimize costs for derived products.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads by example.
• Becomes a subject matter expert in one or more product areas.
• Understands functional and technical requirements of software components.
• Actively provides feedback during code reviews.
• Onboards new members to the team and helps develop junior engineers.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the team's backlog.
• Evolves the team’s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
• Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
• Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
• Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
• Has a deep understanding of their team’s problem domain.
• Clearly understands and communicates the impact of changes in the team’s deliverables on other teams and customers.
• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments and helps others to overcome theirs.