Staff Software Engineer (Java, Microservices & Cloud)

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting and designing (along with counterparts and distinguished Architects) a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Transportation Management System.
• The team currently comprises of 60+ global associates across the regions and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and midlevel software associates in our team.

Our current technical environment:

• Software: Java, Springboot, ReactJs, NodeJS, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Ignite, Apache Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Jenkins, App Dynamics, Splunk

What you’ll do:

• Drive designs discussion and come up with robust and more efficient designs to achieve features in product roadmap.
• Designs services to be self-healing and to offer self-service capabilities from the ground up to achieve minimum manual intervention.
• Seeks out the root causes of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives for smooth migration paths, in particular for breaking changes.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize service selection and usage to minimize costs for derived products.
• Take complete responsibility of the features developed right from coding till deployments.
• Be a Leader, take responsibility of code quality and drive test driven development thought process in the team.
• Collaborate and work along with experts in the team to understand the current architecture and propose opportunities for improvement.
• Introduce new technology and tools for the betterment of the product.
• Mentor New and junior associates in our team by shares knowledge by offering training sessions.
• Guides fellow engineers to look beyond the surface and fix the root causes rather than symptoms.
• Evolves the hiring culture in the team, identifies skill gaps, and actively shapes job openings to ensure foreseeable requirements can be met in the future.
• Provide early visibility and mitigation to technical challenges through the journey.
• Provide support of products through conception to product delivery including problem solving, defect maintenance and support to customer services.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech Computer science or related specialization) and minimum 10 to 12 years of experience in Software development; has been an Architect, within the last 1-2 years minimum.
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java.
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development.
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture on Cloud
• Demonstrable experience designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions (we use Azure) in AWS, Azure and or GCP.
• Experience with implementation of Event driven architecture using Kafka, Spark or similar technologies.
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availability.
• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.