Roles & Responsibilities :

- Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.

- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.

- Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best patterns and our architectural target state.

- Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.

- Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables.

- Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.

- Responsible for coaching and mentoring of direct reports.

- Develop and nurture team of developers by motivating and mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.

- Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed services.

- Guiding developers in day-to-day design and coding tasks, stepping in to code if needed.

- Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

- Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.

- Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.

- Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Required Experience :

- 8+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) in Computer Science/Engineering.

- 2+ years of people management experience.

- Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced work environment.

- Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security.

- Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Life cycle Management needs.

- Significant experience building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework.

- Experience building service-oriented solutions and Restful microservices and a strong understanding of Java multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management.

- Proficient in working with relational databases as well as NoSQL technologies like MongoDB, MySQL and Redis.

- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) and building automation around their APIs.

- Working knowledge of infrastructure, ensuring high-availability, scaling, service discovery, logging, monitoring and alerting.

- Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly available and scalable applications.