Lead I - Software Engineering

Role Summary:

A highly skilled and innovative software engineer responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing applications using best practices, design patterns, and proven technical solutions. Demonstrates deep technical proficiency across multiple platforms and frameworks, ensuring quality, scalability, and performance in every delivery. Collaborates closely with customers, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders to deliver impactful, high-quality software aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Application Development:

  Interpret design specifications to develop, code, debug, test, and document software components and features following engineering standards, templates, and best practices.

• Technical Excellence:

  Select and implement optimal technical solutions, leveraging reusability and configuration improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce cost, and maintain quality.

• Design & Architecture:

  Contribute to high-level and low-level design documents (HLD, LLD, SAD) for applications, data models, and business components. Present and validate design options with customers.

• Testing & Quality Assurance:

  Create and review unit test cases, validate test scenarios, and perform root cause analysis (RCA) for defects to identify trends and implement preventive measures.

• Configuration & Release Management:

  Define and enforce configuration management and release processes to ensure smooth deployment and version control.

• Domain & Customer Engagement:

  Deeply understand customer domains, identify value-added opportunities, clarify requirements, and provide technical guidance to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Team Leadership:

  Set and review FAST goals for the team, mentor members, conduct performance reviews, and maintain team engagement and motivation.

• Project Delivery:

  Manage delivery of modules or user stories, provide effort estimation, oversee timelines, and ensure adherence to project standards and schedules.

• Knowledge Management:

  Contribute to and maintain reusable documentation, best practices, and technical assets within the organizations knowledge base.

Technical Expertise:

• Search & Data Engineering:

  Proven experience in designing and implementing enterprise search solutions using

  Apache Solr

  ,

  Lucidworks Fusion

  , and

  Python

  . Skilled in indexing, querying, and analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets. Expertise in

  search relevance modeling

  ,

  ranking algorithms

  , and

  data structure optimization

  .

• Cloud & DevOps:

  Strong hands-on experience with

  AWS

  ,

  Docker

  ,

  Kubernetes

  , and

  CI/CD pipelines

  using modern DevOps tools and Agile methodologies.

• Database Technologies:

  Skilled in

  PostgreSQL

  ,

  Oracle

  , and

  NoSQL

  databases; experienced in writing optimized queries and ensuring high-performance data access.

Software Engineering Practices:

Share resume to:

Vishal Kumar

vishal@akaasa.com