Associate Director - Software Engineer

The Team:

Whats in it for you:

Responsibilities:

• Understanding of, contribution towards and alignment with the tech strategy of OSTTRA
• Lead end-to-end design, development and maintenance of scalable/distributed critical services, requiring high throughput.
• Hands-on development and fair experience of designing technical architecture while guiding the team on technical execution. Liase with enterprise architecture on more complex or new initiatives that are cross cutting
• Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define scope, and influence priorities.
• Perform peer code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Distribute work across the team, manage delivery timelines, and ensure workload balance.
• Drive sprint planning, estimation, and progress tracking.
• Identify technical risks and provide proactive solutions or mitigations.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to developers and ensure team growth.Troubleshoot complex application and database issues in production and development environments.

What Were Looking For:

Core Technical Skills:

• Expert-level proficiency in Core Java, including OOP, Collections, Multithreading, and Java 8+ features.
• Strong experience in Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Exposure to React Angular UI
• Familiarity with ORM frameworks like Hibernate/JPA.
• Solid understanding of system design, design patterns, and architectural best practices.
• Strong experience in version control (Git), build tools (Maven/Gradle), and logging (SLF4J/Logback).
• Exposure to testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Past experience of Investment management ( or BFSI in general)
• In-depth knowledge and proven experience of SQL and RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) with strong database design and query tuning skills.

Soft Skills:

• Strong stakeholder communication and expectation management.
• Excellent work prioritization and task delegation capabilities.
• Proven team leadership, mentorship, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight timelines