Staff software engineer

Overview

The Lead Software Engineer is an integral part of our engineering team, responsible for design, implementation, testing and maintaining of innovative software products. The successful candidate must be able to quickly learn the existing systems and components, actively participate in designing and implementing new components and developing new products using emerging technologies, have experience in shipping user-facing products, working in large code bases, designing and developing features for security, scalability & high availability, managing and mentoring a small team of developers.

Responsibilities

• Contribute in defining product level architecture and be responsible for designing component level architecture.
• Take ownership and manage the development of major features and components.
• Work with Product Managers and SMEs to clarify requirements and convert into clearly defined software development tasks.
• Mentor junior developers and perform code and design reviews.
• Perform hands-on development and maintenance of software applications and components.
• Maintain and support current systems and ongoing programs.
• Write unit-tests as well as integration tests.

Qualifications

• • BA/BS in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required.• 6+ years of hands-on coding experience in Java; preferably through several complete development cycles from specifications to software delivery.• 2+ years of experience as a team lead preferred.• Strong knowledge of Java 17.• Strong knowledge and hands on experience on Spring Framework.• Experience in multi-threading programming, distributed systems, developing highly performant and scalable applications.• Experience diagnosing and fixing memory and resource bottlenecks.• Strong knowledge and hands on experience with any RDBMS and Docker.• Good understanding of OAuth 2.0 authentication flows.• Good Knowledge of various design patterns.• Experience with JMS, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka is a plus.• Knowledge of AWS or any cloud-based platform is an added advantage.• Knowledge of CI/CD is a plus.• Able to learn quickly and effectively apply new knowledge, demonstrating the desire to stay in touch with emerging technologies.• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability and attention to details.• Experience with Agile Development & Continuous Integration.• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

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