Senior Lead Engineer

Job Description

Requirements Elicitation, Understanding, Analysis, & Management • Understand the project's Vision and requirements, and contribute to the creation of the supplemental requirements, building the low-level technical specifications for a particular platform and/or service solution. Project Planning, Tracking, & Reporting • Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, create (build), and test the code for assigned module(s). • Provide inputs in creating the detailed schedule for the project. • Support the team in project planning activities, in evaluating risks, and shuffle priorities based on unresolved issues. • During development and testing, ensure that assigned parts of the project/modules are on track with respect to schedules and quality. • Note scope changes within the assigned modules and work with the team to shuffle priorities accordingly. • Communicate regularly with the team about development changes, scheduling, and status. • Participate in project review meetings. • Tracking and reporting progress for assigned modules Design: • Create a detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) with possible alternate solutions. • Ensure that LLD design meets business requirements. • Submit the LLD design for review. • Fix the detailed (LLD) design for the assigned piece(s) for the comments received from team. Development & Support • Build the code of high-priority and complex systems according to the functional specifications, detailed design, maintainability, and coding and efficiency standards. • Use code management processes and tools to avoid versioning problems. • Ensure that the code does not affect the functioning of any external or internal systems. • Perform peer reviews of code to ensure it meets coding and efficiency standards. • Act as the primary reviewer to review the application code created by software engineers to ensure compliance to defined standards. Recommend changes to the code as required. Testing & Debugging • Attend the Test Design walkthroughs to help verify that the plans and conditions will test all functions and features effectively. • Perform impact analysis for issues assigned to self and Software Engineers /Sr Engineers. • Actively assist with project- and code-level problem solving, such as suggesting paths to explore when testing engineers or software engineers encounter a debugging problem, and escalate urgent issues. Documentation • Review technical documentation for the code for accuracy, completeness, and usability. • Document and maintain the reviews conducted and the unit test results. Process Management • Adhere to the project and support processes. • Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies, such as the SDLC cycle for different project sizes. • Shows responsibility for corporate funds, materials and resources. • Ensure adherence to SDLC and audits requirements. • Adhere to best practices and comply with approved policies, procedures, and methodologies. Coaching and Mentoring • Act as a technical subject matter expert for the internal team on areas such as system functionality and approach including solving systems operations issues, performance initiatives. Leverage existing knowledge and expertise in multiple ways. • Build team skills using formal and/or informal training sessions. • Create and maintain knowledge repositories for lessons learnt and developments in the respective domains.Key Qualifications At least 10+ years of engineering experience Strong object-oriented programming, functional programming, and design skills. Significant experience with Kotlin, Java, JetPack Compose, Activities/Fragments, and more Android SDKs. Significant experience building and deploying apps to Google Play. Significant experience creating user experiences that are pixel perfect, follow clear information architecture, and utilize established platform conventions. Significant experience architecting mobile apps from File New Project to shipped to customers. Strong understanding of patterns, MVC, MVVM, functional, and reactive programming. Significant experience calling, writing, and debugging REST APIs. Significant experience with HTML/JS/CSS apps. You are not expected to build web apps but will have to integrate with web apps. Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cross platform frameworks, e.g. Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Native. Strong communication skills Passion for quality and attention to detail. Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code. Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using instrumentation. Understanding of the authentication and security challenges for native and web apps. Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company. Daily activities include: Reviewing software engineer's pull requests and mentoring them on best practices. Writing stories for software engineers to implement, including yourself. Reviewing upcoming designs to provide feedback on conformance to mobile platform UX patterns. Building apps for release to internal deployment sites and the App Store/Google Play, including TestFlight and Non-Prod Release Channels. Triaging customer feedback, customer incidents, and crash reports. Complete more technically challenging stories. Performance test code for bottlenecks. Monitor unit & UI test code coverage and drive higher coverage percentages. Deliver an automated build pipeline for mobile apps. Evaluate cross-platform technologies Evaluate latest changes to the Apple & Google SDKs and suggest new features Location: This position can be based in any of the following locations: Gurgaon For internal use only: R000107035