Principal Engineer - Java Development (7-10 yrs)

Job Description :

Who are you :

- You are a fast learner, with an eye for detail, strong problem-solving and debugging skills, and the following

- Strong individual contributor who can complete work autonomously with no regular need for review

- Capable of running and directing small teams for substantial projects

- Driving code reviews, design reviews and architecture discussions

- Fully capable of owning and running entire subsystems of work, helping set and maintain professional standards for the entire team

- Deep, substantial expertise in multiple programming environments, with a zeal for driving technology & best practices in Engineering

- Scaling, Performance, and ensuring High-Availability & Quality of the products

- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption

- Experience in developing distributed data processing, stream or batch, systems

- Design and develop logical and physical data models to meet application requirements.

- Coordinate with architects, development team & business analysts;

Must have :

- 7 to 10 years of experience in back-end development (Designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications)

- Expertise in Java and Spring Framework - Java 8 or higher.

- 3+ years of experience with AWS cloud platform.

- Must have experience in leading and managing a team.

- Strong organizational and time-management skills.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to meet communicated deadlines and release project with minimal bugs

- Experience in SQL & NoSQL databases (Redis / MongoDB)

- Experience in designing and developing high volume web-services using API protocols and data formats

- Proficient in API modelling languages and annotation

- Exposure to Amazon Web Services (ECS) for release management and (Lambda/S3) for application development.

Preferred Qualification :

- Bachelors / Master's degree in computer science or related field.

Good to have :

- Experience building and using ETL systems and integrations.

- Exposure to Kafka

- Familiarity with front side platforms such Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and React / Angular / Vue

Measures of Success :

- Writing quality and bug free code adhering to the functional and non-functional requirements

- Follow standard practices (Unit Tests, Reduce technical debt, Code Coverage, Integration Test, etc)

- Excellent troubleshooting skills - Memory leaks, GC tuning