Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration Platforms

About the role

The Lead Software Engineer will design, develop, and support event-streaming solutions at scale, enhancing and maintaining custom microservices-based applications for administration and operation of messaging platforms. They will also provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role

• Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost-optimized cloud-based event-streaming and integration platforms.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources.
• Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform.
• Design, develop, and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third-party systems.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms.
• Promote engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability.
• Continuously improve platform automation, monitoring, and self-service capabilities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources.
• Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka and AWS Kinesis.
• Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.