Lead - Software Engineering

Job Description:

Job Title - Lead - Software Engineering

The Purpose of this Role

Produce high-quality, testable, readable, and easily maintainable code. Participate in and lead all phases of the development process, from conception to deployment as a member of an agile, cross-functional team.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Demonstrates leadership and maintains a continuous technology progressive mentality. Supports junior associates to develop solutions that improve processes.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or Equivalent.

• You have the expertise and experience in designing and developing microservices which can handle high traffic.

• You are experienced with a variety of modern programming languages and frameworks. 6+ years of experience working with Java, Spring boot, Oracle, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS.

• You have a passion for technology and can stay on top of latest technology trends.

• You have hands-on experience leading or mentoring scrum teams focused on building software solutions for business critical, architecturally distributed experiences. The teams you have worked with have multi-functional responsibilities such as engineering, quality, DevOps and release implementation.

• You care about cycle time and use CI/CD practices, tools to rapidly deploy changes to production while minimizing risk.

• Have strong communication, collaboration skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions with partners across different roles and different skillsets.

The Skills that are Key to This Role

• Hands on experience in Java, Spring, Spring boot, REST API development, messaging frameworks

• Hands on experience in container-based development (Docker)

• Hands on experience working with EDA solutions such as Kafka/ MQ

• Hands on experience working with Oracle or CockroachdB.

• Hands on experience with NodeJS is preferred

• Experience in implementing Micro services Architecture & building / deploying highly automated, scalable and maintainable infrastructure.

• Experience in designing and developing apps with high throughput and low latency utilizing load balancing, caching, threading etc.

• Experience working with cloud computing strategies and architecture (Serverless, Amazon EKS etc.)

• Knowledge on CD process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform)

• Strategic thinking and critical problem-solving skills

The Value You Deliver

• Define, develop, and implement applications hosted in the cloud.

• Use your expertise and leadership to influence and gain consensus on how to proceed, remove impediments and strive for robust team success sprint over sprint.

• Consistently making culture choices that positively impact the team, helping the team to create a better work environment.

• Understand the leadership vision and own the execution of that vision.

• Cultivate a culture of best-in-class software engineering practices

• Deliver system automation by setting up continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines

• Communicate effectively in team environment.

• Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction.

• The team will view you as an advocate for continuous learning helping them improve sprint over sprint. You help build a trustful, open environment which is encouraging of problem solving and experimentation.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience.  Completed three or more projects on commercially available applications.

• B.E./B Tech in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Location Chennai          

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 08:00pm

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