Lead Software Engineer

Our online architecture is built on?Kubernetes (EKS), enabling us to run scalable, resilient microservices in the cloud. On top of this, we leverage a wide range of?AWS services (Lambda, Kinesis, Dynamo and RDS to name just a few), to enhance performance, observability, and integration across our platform.

We place a strong emphasis on?quality and automation, employing a variety of testing strategies including unit, integration, and behaviour-driven testing. Our CI/CD pipelines, powered by modern DevOps tooling, ensure smooth and reliable delivery through all stages of our environments.

You will be part of a high-performance engineering team as a Lead Engineer that delivers the product backlog of Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform.?You will work closely with other Software Engineers to both maintain existing systems and build our cloud-native microservices and web applications using the latest technologies and architectural patterns

Key Responsibilities:

• Working as a lead engineer in an agile team to deliver high-quality software solutions within agreed timelines, ensuring alignment with business requirements and agile principles.

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and agile principles.

• Take ownership of the overall technical architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability of the software systems.

• Champion the adoption of best practices in software development, including clean code, maintainability, efficient coding standards, and DevSecOps practices.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional team members, including product owners, designers, QA, and other stakeholders, to ensure successful project delivery and alignment with business objectives.

• Lead technical discussions and decision-making processes, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, long-term technical strategy, and business goals.

• Manage technical risks and issues, proactively identifying potential challenges and developing mitigation strategies.

• Provide clear and concise documentation for code, processes, and system architecture to facilitate knowledge sharing and maintainability for yourself and the team.

• Translating business requirements to clean, scalable code ensuring minimal defects for yourself and the team.

• Mentor and guide senior & junior developers, providing technical expertise, code reviews.

• Lead by example, demonstrating a strong work ethic, commitment to quality, and a passion for technology and innovation.

Qualification and Personal Skills:

• Qualified with a degree in B.Sc. in Computer Science, MCA in Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology in Engineering, or higher.

• Minimum 10 years of experience working in software development with at least X years of experience leading a team currently.

• Proven experience leading and collaborating within cross-functional teams throughout the full software development lifecycle, leveraging Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.?

• Strong leadership capabilities with a focus on setting clear direction, aligning team efforts with organizational goals, and maintaining high levels of motivation and engagement across the team.?

• Skilled in working with geographically distributed teams, fostering inclusive collaboration across diverse cultures and backgrounds to enhance productivity and innovation.?

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas, solutions, and feedback clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Adept at managing conflict constructively and facilitating consensus.?

• Proven track record of building secure, mission-critical, high-volume transaction web-based software systems, preferably in regulated environments (finance and insurance industries).

• Passionate in solving technical business problems, designing solutions and developing.

• Proficient in translating business requirement to clean, scalable code defined as the acceptance criteria with the applicable design patterns and security best practices?

• Strong individual contributor and team player, capable of collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.

Required Technical Skills/Knowledge:

• Hands-on experience with .NET 6+ or .NET Core or .NET Framework building scalable, maintainable and performant REST/SOAP/RPC APIs with microservice or SOA architectures using ASP.NET with proficiency in C#.?

OR

• Hands on experience with Scala and Python and big data frameworks (e.g. spark), Batch Processing.

• Experience with any of streaming, messaging, event bus technologies while build event driven architecture either Kafka, Event Bridge, Kinesis, Rabbit MQ, Active MQ or any other message bus.

• Proficient in writing high-quality unit and integration tests using?xUnit or nUnit, with hands-on experience in?Test-Driven Development (TDD)?and?Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). Skilled in using mocking frameworks to ensure test reliability and alignment with acceptance criteria.?

• Skilled in creating and reviewing high-level and low-level design documents. Strong understanding of architectural principles, clean architecture, SOLID principles, OOP, design patterns, and concurrency concepts. Collaborates effectively with architects and business stakeholders to ensure optimal design outcomes.??

• Committed to writing clean, scalable, and secure code. Experienced in conducting code reviews and applying design patterns and security best practices. Familiar with static code analysis tools and vulnerability management??

• Proficient in working with either SQL or NoSQL databases. Hands-on experience with Entity Framework and data modelling for performance and scalability.?

• Working experience of any source control, preferably git (e.g. Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab)?

• Strong knowledge and experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices?

• Passionate about mentoring and upskilling junior developers. Encourages knowledge sharing and fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement.?

• Identifying, creating, maintaining or re-using existing / new frameworks as much as possible.

• Experience on static code quality analysis tools, vulnerability management.?

Useful & Desirable skills:

• Working knowledge or certifications relevant to public cloud, preferably AWS.

• Working knowledge of AWS Batch, AWS Glue, AWS EMR, AWS S3 is a big plus.

• Familiarity with?Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?using?Terraform?or AWS CloudFormation or Cloud Development Kit.

• Working knowledge in setting up CI CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI.

• Working and expertise in using GEN AI tools for software development & testing.

• Experience working with Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture.?

• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized application development, deployment, and orchestration.