Lead Software Engineer

You re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Lead Software Engineer within our Software Engineering Group, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. Youll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Understanding of architecture and design across all systems
• Working proficiency in developmental toolsets
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages
• Understanding of software skills such as business analysis, development, maintenance, and software improvement
• Pragmatism and the ability to strike the balance between the need for process versus the need to accelerate project delivery and not overburden teams with unnecessary administrative overhead is key.
• Experience with Agile project methodology
• Expert in Java, Casandra, Kafka, Spring, Spring Boot, Cloud foundry.
• Deep understanding of REST & SOAP Protocols.
• Additionally the candidate should be taking the ownership to drive business goal and leading from front. Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advantage of having Cloud Certification but not compulsory.