Associate Principal Engineer (Java Microservices)

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REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems and applications.
• Lead and mentor a high-performance team of backend engineers.
• Define and execute on the technical roadmap in collaboration with product managers, program managers, and business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Build, extend, optimize, and refactor backend and frontend architectures for evolving business needs.
• Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and design principles to drive technical excellence.
• Manage project delivery timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple teams and functions.
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience in back-end development utilizing Java and Open-Source technologies (Java, Sprint boot, Application servers, servlet containers, JMS, JPA, Spring MVC, Hibernate)
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, messaging technologies (e.g Kafka), MongoDB , Caching system (e.g Redis) etc.
• Experience with Node JS
• Familiarity with SQL and knowledge of other NoSQL and modern database technologies.
• Proficiency in software engineering tools (e.g., Java build tools, CI/CD) and adherence to best practices such as unit testing, test automation, continuous integration, etc.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment
• Deliver high-quality and maintainable code using test-driven methodologies
• Monitor and maintain critical applications, services, and products.
• Efficiently collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products and features

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding the clients business use cases and technical requirements and be able to convert them into technical design which elegantly meets the requirements.
• Mapping decisions with requirements and be able to translate the same to developers.
• Identifying different solutions and being able to narrow down the best option that meets the client’s requirements.
• Defining guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
• Writing and reviewing design document explaining overall architecture, framework, and high-level design of the application for the developers
• Reviewing architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, NFRs, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed.
• Developing and designing the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and defining technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
• Understanding and relating technology integration scenarios and applying these learnings in projects
• Resolving issues that are raised during code/review, through exhaustive systematic analysis of the root cause, and being able to justify the decision taken.
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.