Backend Engineer

Required Skills/Abilities:

• 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters)

in Computer Science/Engineering

• 5+ years of people management experience in agile software development

• Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced

work environment

• Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based

applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security

• Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Life Cycle Management needs.

• Significant experience building REST based web services & web applications using Java and

Spring framework

• Experience building service-oriented solutions and Restful microservices and a strong

understanding of Java multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management

• Proficient in working with relational databases as well as NoSQL technologies like MongoDB,

MySQL and Redis

• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) and building automation

around their APIs

• Working knowledge of infrastructure, ensuring high-availability, scaling, service discovery,

logging, monitoring and alerting.

• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly

available and scalable applications.

• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these

across teams.

• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to

changing priorities.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to

effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational

level internally and externally.

Duties/Responsibilities:

● Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and

capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.

● Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and

then design and develop required solutions.

● Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best

patterns and our architectural target state.

● Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team

● Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of

team's deliverables.

Education Qualifications

Bachelor of computer science or equivalent