Lead Software Engineer (Microservices/Java/Spring boot /Cloud)

About the role

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Skills

• Hands on working experience developing highly maintainable, extensible, and testable distributed systems
• Hands on development experience with Node, NPM and React framework, producing hygiene and secure front-end code
• Proven ability to implement user interfaces against REST APIs
• Proven experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Spring boot
• Experience in developing Cloud native applications in Azure or AWS
• Experience on designing low latency applications designed for scalability and reliability with high throughput
• Experience with open-source technologies like Java, Spring boot, Kafka, etc. and containerization
• Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Gitlab, Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Experience using modern and functional programming styles
• Familiarity with source control management best practices
• Good to have AI experience
• Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain within an analysis