Lead Engineer - Backend

About You:

As a lead engineer you would be responsible for

• Designing

  scalable architecture

  with the best choice of tech, responsible for all the services/functionalities that the team develops while ensuring quality of the team's code and/or infrastructure standards.
• Hands-on development, often taking on the more complicated tasks. Ensures solution is production ready, deployable, scalable and resilient.
• Planning and delivering of work in the team in addition to their own work. Promotes a learning culture through mentoring and coaching.
• Ensures product

  observability

  is in place for reliability. Fosters a culture of observability across teams and helps use operational data to improve stability and performance of their domains. Drives monitoring work on their team based on the organization's monitoring philosophy. Is aware of the operational data for their teams domain and uses it as a basis for driving changes to the team's services to achieve stability and performance improvements.
• Responsible for ensuring the

  security

  of the product and fostering a security first mindset across teams. Highly skilled with applying and implementing security concepts such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, creating logic to detect malicious behavior, and analyzing network or host artifacts.
• Able to articulate a technical strategy, value of technology, and impact to the business.
• Provides guidance and cultivates solutions for the most complex problems across teams.
• Encourages team to adopt a growth mindset. Educates team about how competitors and technology companies evolve their technologies.
• Guides the team in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimise the cost of future changes. Evaluates options, defines pros and cons by working with the team, and identifies the best option.

Position Overview

Must Have Skills:

• Java Kotlin

  (Advanced proficiency in Java/Kotlin development)

• Microservices Architecture

  (Designing, developing, and managing scalable microservices)
• Spring Boot or Micronaut (Experience with JVM-based frameworks, including reactive programming)

• Messaging Systems

  (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

• Databases

  (Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, and SQL-based databases like PostgreSQL)

• CI/CD

  (Building and managing pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools)

• Unit and Integration Testing

  (Spock, JUnit, TestContainers, Selenium)

• Cloud Services

  (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Containerization and Orchestration

  (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Monitoring & Observability

  (Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus)

• Event-Driven Architecture

  (Knowledge of event-driven patterns in distributed systems)

Good to Have Skills:

• Functional Programming (Familiarity with functional programming paradigms in Kotlin)
• GraphQL (Experience designing and integrating GraphQL APIs)
• Legacy System Modernization (Experience refactoring and modernizing older systems)
• Security Best Practices (OWASP, vulnerability scanning, secure coding principles)
• Agile Methodologies (Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, or other agile processes)