Principal Platform Engineer - Java

Description :

As a Principal Engineer, you will lead and build the engineering team, manage product engineering, release and deployment, and work closely with the Product Teams. You will also play an integral role in the evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing product suite.

Responsibilities :

- Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision. Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing the 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 the 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 the existing toolset.

- From a 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, enhancing observability, and CI / CD.

- Present technical solutions, problem areas, and 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.

- Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineer's system.

- Essentially, this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect.

Requirements :

- Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production.

- Engineering Lead / Tech Architect with 10+ years of experience in Product-Led Tech-First companies, with an attitude to learn almost anything.

- B. Tech/M. Tech from a Tier 1/Tier 2 College.

- Brilliant at communication, estimation, and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities.

- Should have managed a large technology team directly or through the hierarchy.

- Passionate about working in the 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 a microservices-based approach. Background in transforming existing applications and coming up with a microservices-based architecture (including technology migration) is a plus.

- Programming background : Strong hands-on experience with Java and GoLang. Preferably a polyglot.

- Experience in distributed system design, cloud native technologies, and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and NATS.

- Experience in working with SQL and 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 principles 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 and technology documentation skills.