Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer at Company within the Infrastructure Platforms space, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate around solving business problems through innovation engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally.
This will require an understanding of requirements, operating models, business flows and data and then partnering with technical specialists to deliver appropriate solutions. There is an implicit ownership and accountability for the solution working as intended.

Job responsibilities:
The ideal candidate is a results-oriented hands-on leader who can handle many different roles such as:
Provide technical leadership across functional teams
Lead code reviews and mentor junior developers
Participate in design sessions with fellow programmers, business analysts, and other team members to analyze business requirements and outline the proposed IT solution
Design and implement secure and robust REST APIs using Java Spring Boot
have advanced knowledge of architecture and design across all systems
Design scalable and extensible relational and NoSQL databases
Prototype creative solutions quickly, and be able to collaborate with others in crafting and implementing your technical vision
Contributes to product area, or software in order to automate manual operational work
Troubleshoots priority incidents, facilitates blameless post-mortems and supports solutions for closure
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Understanding of architecture and design across all systems
10+ years of very Strong hands-on experience of developing microservices using Java and Spring Boot (understanding Spring internals)
5+ years hands-on experience of building distributed system with micro-services, REST APIs
5+ years hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL
3+ years hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
3+ years hands-on experience with event driven app architecture
3+ years hands-on experience using latest front-end technologies such as React JS or Angular JS and associated eco-systems
Working knowledge of CI/CD tools process (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Sonar)
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills