Lead Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead cutting-edge projects utilizing Python and JavaScript, ensuring high-quality application performance and user experience.
• Architect and implement robust distributed systems and microservice architectures, leveraging your deep understanding of the Gang of Four design patterns to solve complex problems.
• Drive the adoption of frameworks such as Next.js, Flask, FastAPI, and Django, guiding the team in best practices and innovative approaches to application development.
• Optimize application performance through insightful analysis and refinement of code, infrastructure, and database interactions.
• Design and integrate message bus patterns, enhancing system scalability and reliability. Experience with Kafka will be highly valued in streamlining event-driven processes.
• Mentor and support a team of talented developers, fostering an environment of learning, growth, and excellence.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align application development with the company's strategic goals, ensuring seamless integration and deployment practices.
• Stay ahead of technology trends and advancements, continuously seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement within our application ecosystem.
• Champion best practices in coding, testing, security, and deployment, establishing standards that elevate our engineering efforts.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in application development, with a proven track record in building and optimizing applications using Python and JavaScript and expert knowledge in distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Expertise in distributed systems, microservice architectures, and the Gang of Four design patterns.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Next.js, Flask, FastAPI, and Django.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to tackle problems creatively.
• Excellent leadership qualities with experience mentoring and guiding a development team.
• Knowledge of API gateways, service meshes, and other tools to manage microservices communication and ensure security and observability.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, to enhance application deployment and scalability.
• Understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate the software development lifecycle with a preference for GitHub Actions.
• Experience with database technologies, both SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra), to efficiently manage application data.
• Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security measures at the application and infrastructure levels to protect against common vulnerabilities.
• Project management skills, including experience with agile methodologies, to effectively plan, prioritize, and execute development projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Must have experience in leading and managing geographically dispersed teams, demonstrating strong capabilities in remote collaboration, communication, and project management to ensure cohesion and productivity across different time zones, cultures, and languages.
• Experience with message bus patterns, particularly with Kafka.
• Prior involvement in full lifecycle application development and deployment in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) with a preference for AWS and their managed services to build, deploy, and scale applications

The candidate should have a B.E/B.Tech/B.SC degree in Information Technology or any related field .The candidate should have a work experience of 10 to 15 years.