Technical Lead

Education: B.E./B.Tech / MCA from a reputed institute.

Job responsibilities

• Architecture and design of significant components within the product suite.

• Implementation of code to required standard in technology appropriate to product and domain.

• Creation and maintenance of unit tests and other automation tests.

• Liaise with QA to support testing and resolve issues identified by them.

• Mentoring and support to junior members of the department.

• Assisting the Support, Consultancy and Service teams to manage customer specific issues.

Person Specification

• Passionate about learning.

• Makes data-driven decisions.

• A dislike of corporate politics and political agendas.

• Respectful of others.

• Subject matter expertise.

• A contributor to the team and the company, both professionally and personally.

• Ethically and socially responsible in their motivations and actions.

• Dedicated to delivering quality results.

• A willingness to help others.

Key Experience and Qualifications Essential

• Track record in developing secure, highly performant, highly available, commercial off-the-shelf software products.

• Disciplined and self-motivated in delivering high-quality software.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject (Software Engineering, Computer Science) or equivalent substantial practical experience.

• Design and implement highly testable software.

• Experienced in creating design documents, software product specifications, and rapid prototyping.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• 8+ years of software development experience - C++ (including STL, Windows SDK), C Standard Library.

• Network programming experience (sockets, TCP/IP, Http, WebSockets, etc.).

• Solve complex design problems with enthusiasm and creativity.

• Work within small multi-disciplinary teams to agreed specifications.

Desirable

• Highly desirable: Experience in Mac OS X and XCode

• Highly desirable: Good knowledge of Active Directory

• Highly desirable: Experience with Azure

• Highly desirable: Familiarity with Virtualization technologies

• Highly Desirable: Experience with C#/WinForms/WPF.

• Desirable: Experience with cross platform Windows and Mac OSX libraries (such as LibCurl and OpenSSL).

• 10+ years of software development experience.

• Knowledge of cloud-based platforms and architectures (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, etc.).

• Experience in test driven development.

• Certification in secure software development practices (ISC2 CISSP, SANS CSSLP, etc.)

• Experience working with Agile methodologies.

• Experience implementing software quality assurance tests, unit tests, testing frameworks, continuous integration, etc.

• Windows and Network Security.

• Experience working within a variety of expert domains and industries.

Expectations

• Collaborate with product management and UI/Design to define and implement product features.

• Create rapid prototypes to effectively evaluate designs and features prior to full development.

• Define, present and defend designs and milestones to product management and other executive stakeholders.

• Establish and promote best practices, coding guidelines and standards.

• Design and simplify complex user requirements and features into maintainable, testable code.