Principal engineer

10 - 15 years

13 - 17 Lacs

Posted:1 month ago| Platform: Naukri logo

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Job Description

  • Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision. Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life
  • Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles
  • Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilizing automation.
  • Responsible for key technical and product decisions.
  • Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications
  • Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management and reporting
  • Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving spring boot microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.
  • Work closely with product teams and clients and help provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.
  • Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high quality output.
  • Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
  • Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving existing toolset
  • From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organization
  • Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance
  • Implementing best practice engineering methods. Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing XP practices such as Test Driven Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhance observability and CI / CD
  • Present technical solutions, problem areas, proof of concepts to the team or wider audience
  • Participate in cross team coordinated development activities
  • Create and deliver on the long term road map for engineering efficiency.
  • Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability, and performance.
  • Measure and ensure engineering, product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance
  • Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process
  • Experience adopting and deploying foss tools in production
  • Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineers system
  • Essentially this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect
Team Management:
  • Manage multiple technology delivery teams
  • Lead engineering team(s) to ship high-quality software on predictable schedules.
  • Managing a team of bright engineers, each of whom is building a production-ready system for various clients
  • Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and training the members across levels
  • Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team members
Technical Skills and Experience
  • Engineering Lead / Tech Architect with 10+ years of experience in Product-Led Tech-First companies with an attitude to learn almost anything
  • BTech/MTech from Tier1/Tier2 College
  • Brilliant at communication, estimation and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities
  • Should have managed large technology team directly or through the hierarchy
  • Passionate about working in finance domain and disrupting traditional workflows that are inefficient and lack transparency
  • Wide experience in Security, Scale, Design and Architecture, API, Cloud Infrastructure, Tooling, and multiple frameworks
  • Strong experience building products with microservices based approach. Background in transforming existing applications & coming up with a microservices based architecture (including technology migration) is a plus.
  • Programming background: Strong hands-on experience on Java and GoLang. Preferably a polyglot
  • Experience in distributed system design, cloud native technologies, and messaging systems like RabbitMQ & NATS
  • Experience on working with SQL & NoSql databases and performance tuning
  • In depth understanding of principles and best practices around code quality, clean code and design
  • You live and breathe automation and have a firm grasp of Continuous Delivery and Deployment principals and techniques
  • Experience with AWS services
  • Experience implementing containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Experience with observability frameworks such as Prometheus, and Grafana for logging, monitoring and distributed tracing.
  • Experience with Frontend technologies (JS Frameworks) / mobile development is a plus
  • Very good communication & technology documentation skills.
  • Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
  • Embrace simplicity and evolutionary design over convoluted and heavy top down design solutions
  • A strong preference for build over buy as far as software solutions are concerned
Qualifications & Experience
  • BE/B.Tech/MCA/MSc. from premier institute and with 10+ years of experience
  • Experience working in a fast growing fintech startup is a plus
  • Experience leading an engineering team
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