Technical Lead - Backend Development

Responsibilities :

- Extensive experience working on Backend development with JVM languages (preference for Kotlin).

- Lead design, planning, and estimation discussions within the team and with partners from across the department, along with business stakeholders.

- Conduct high-level system analysis and architecture design, ensuring alignment with business requirements, technical standards, and the overall architecture blueprint.

- Facilitate requirement gathering and translate complex business needs into technical specifications.

- Oversee the creation and maintenance of project and technical documentation.

- Identify and mitigate risks throughout the SDLC, proposing solutions to complex problems.

- Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

- Oversee production support processes, collaborating with operations and business stakeholders.

- Analyze issue patterns to drive improvements.

- Guide documentation efforts, maintain on-call rotations, and lead post-mortems.

- Lead efforts to resolve root causes and enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Provide technical leadership and serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers, analysts, and grads.

- You bring experience across API integration, databases, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.

- You enjoy being hands-on and are happy to lead from a technical perspective, mentoring others and helping upscale teams.

- You have exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements :

- 8+ years of relevant experience in backend technologies, especially Java/Kotlin, and unit testing practices.

- Experience in managing and implementing successful projects.

- Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.

- Demonstrated leadership and project management skills.

- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

- Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.

- Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (preferably Azure).

- Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.

- A desire to teach others and share knowledge.

- A team player mindset where you want to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.

- Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions.

- Copes effectively with complexity and change.

- Learn technologies and patterns quickly.

- Comfortable in uncharted waters.

- Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.

- High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

- Experience using both relational databases (e. g. Postgres).

- Education : Bachelor's degree(B. Tech), preferably from a grade A college.