Senior Manager - Engineer Backend

Years of Experience :- +8 Years

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical lead for your team. You should have deep technical skills and aptitude to build products and solutions from scratch. You will help establish best practices, coding standards and will enforce design patterns to build sustainable products. You will mentor your team members and will help eliminate knowledge silos.

Responsibility statements

• Translates user stories and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions in an agile environment.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders including product management, infrastructure and security to ensure that functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs
• Develops, configures, or modifies complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications using various programming languages
• Validates and executes component integration test (CIT) scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.
• Facilitates the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications by packaging solutions for deployment
• Supports end-to-end test automation and other application testing eKorts to ensure product quality
• Mentors others by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls .

Required education/experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, CIS, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement
• 5+ years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
• 3+ years of experience in database technologies
• 2+ years working in an agile environment (Scrum or Kanban)
• 3+ years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
• 5+ years IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization
• 5+ years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions.

Primary Skillset:

You must be a be having extensive hands-on experience in the following:

- Data Structures

- Object Oriented Programming concepts

- Design Patterns

- Sound Technical expertise in one of the following backend technologies:

Java

• Strong hand on experience with Java and OOPs concepts
• Spring, SpringBoot, SpringCloud or Micronaut

Node

• Expertise building NodeJS applications with frameworks available for it such as Express.js, NestJS, AdonisJS, MeteorJS
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

GoLang:

• Expertise building GoLang based applications in multiple frameworks such as Fiber, Kit, Echo

- Good understanding of server-side templating languages such as EJS, Mustache, React JSX

- Expertise in building backend API based applications engineered for fault tolerance, high performance and resiliency in a Rest and Micro-Service environment

- Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment and tooling

- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

- Knowledge of JavaScript, Web stacks, libraries, and frameworks will be plus

- One or more Relational like Oracle, PostgreSQL etc and NO-SQL databases like Couchbase, MongoDB etc.

- Strong understanding on any ORM frameworks - Hibernate, iBatis, Sequalize

- Experience working with source code control systems like Git

- One or more CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GOCD, CircleCI

- One or more Test automation tools like JUnit, Selenium, JMeter

- One of the cloud platforms (Preferable GCP)

- Container platforms like Docker and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes (Preferable)

- Messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ