Senior Engineer, Software Engineering

Job Description

The Impact: Join our Development Team as a Developer, where you will be responsible for creating and optimizing the systems that power our news platform. Collaborating with editorial staff, you will develop innovative solutions that enhance user experience and streamline the news delivery process. Your technical contributions will play a key role in ensuring that MI News remains a leading source of timely and relevant information. What's in it for you: Impactful Work: Contribute to meaningful journalism by developing innovative solutions that enhance the news delivery process and engage audiences. Collaborative Environment: Work alongside a passionate team of journalists and IT professionals, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. Professional Growth: Gain exposure to the latest technologies and development practices, with opportunities for continuous learning and skill enhancement. Creative Freedom: Bring your ideas to life and have the autonomy to implement solutions that improve our platform and user experience. Flexible Work Culture: Enjoy a supportive work environment that values work-life balance and offers flexible working arrangements. Responsibilities: Collaborate with PO and cross teams to understand technical needs, develop solutions, and implement features that enhance the MI News platform and improve user experience. Provide production support by monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and resolving technical challenges in a timely manner to ensure high reliability and availability of the platform. Design, develop, and maintain applications and APIs, ensuring seamless integration with third-party services while adhering to best practices for performance, security, and scalability. Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications before deployment and analyse user feedback and performance metrics to identify areas for improvement. Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning and retrospectives, while contributing to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation for system architecture and development processes. Engage in continuous learning and professional development to stay current with advancements in technology and provide technical training and support to editorial staff on new tools and features. What Were Looking For: Education: Bachelors degree in Technology (B.Tech) or equivalent, or a Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). Experience: 3-8 years of relevant experience in software development and application support. Skills: Core Java & Spring Framework: Strong expertise in Core Java, with experience in the Spring framework (including Spring MVC and Spring Boot) for building scalable applications. RESTful Services & Code Optimization: Proficient in designing and developing RESTful web services, with a focus on optimizing code for performance improvement and responsiveness. Effective Tracing & Monitoring: Experience in implementing effective tracing of technical flows and monitoring application performance to identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues. AWS & Database Management: Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud deployment, along with solid understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases for designing and optimizing schemas. Front-End Technologies: Good to have experience with front-end technologies, particularly Ext JS, to develop user-friendly interfaces and enhance the overall user experience. Communication Skills : Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and effectively through email and documentation Familiarity with Jackrabbit : Knowledge of Apache Jackrabbit or similar content repository systems is a plus, as it can enhance the development and management of content-driven applications.