Lead Software Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer you will design, develop, and maintain software systems. This role involves both creative and analytical skills to solve complex problems and create efficient, reliable software. You will use your expertise in requirements analysis, programming languages, software development methodologies, and tools to build and deliver software products that meet the needs of businesses, organizations, or end-users. You will work with other engineers, product managers and delivery leads, to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What Will You Do In This Role

• Create and document detailed designs for custom software applications or components.
• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex applications and software configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams across various regions worldwide.
• Elicit requirements for systems and software life cycle working practices and automation. Prepare design options for the working environment of methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people. Utilize systems and software life cycle working practices for software components and micro-services.
• Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcomes.
• Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas. Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Utilize AWS Cloud technologies (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) to deploy applications, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and robust.
• Identify and resolve technical issues through root cause analysis, providing effective solutions to maintain application uptime and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing to ensure adherence to quality standards and best practices.
• Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
• Participate in Product planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with both functional and Product goals.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience working with technologies - HTML, CSS, REST API, HTTP, SQL and databases, at least one programming language from our supported stack (TypeScript / Node / React, Java, Python, .NET).
• Working with DevSecOps tools for deploying and versioning code.
• Familiarity with modern product development practices Agile, Scrum, test driven development, UX, design thinking.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices (Git, Docker, infrastructure as code, observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).
• Cloud-native, ideally AWS certified.
• Proficiency in Python programming language.
• Experience with other programming languages (Java, TypeScript, .NET) is a nice to have.
• Knowledge of integration patterns (e.g., synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven).
• Proficiency in authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, JWT, SAML).
• Proficiency with JSON, XML, XSLT, OData, REST, and SOAP.
• Strong understanding of REST API design and implementation.
• Proficiency with DataBricks, DBT, and AirFlow.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Product and customer-centric approach.