Principal Software Engineer

TITLE : eCommerce Principal engineer

REPORTING TO : Manager

WORKING LOCATION : Bangalore, India

The Role : The position shall manage the group of developers technically in Dublin, to develop one or more high quality eCommerce products (Microsoft based tech stack) and related mobile application for the Primary Eurofins eCommerce Portal. Product is developed in coordination with the India & Europe Team.

Responsibilities : The role has ultimate responsibility for the assigned project(s) and manages all aspects of delivery including definition, planning, monitoring, customer satisfaction and others aspects of an agile product development. This role is more of a hands-on Development Manager who will have the total accountability and responsibility for delivering with highest quality (minimum defect leakage and density) and within the said cost/time.

• Some of the responsibilities are listed below; however these are not the exhaustive set of responsibilities.
• Deliver high quality shippable product as per the scope of the program. Should ensure that the quality is measured, monitored and improved with every release.
• Manage team of Developers technically, and ensure that all best practices of software engineering is implemented.
• Oversee planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other agile project related meetings.
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.
• Report (or contribute in preparing the status report) to Sr. management
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Experience:

• Overall 8-10 years in experience in IT Application/Software Development field.
• Good and hands-on knowledge of Agile adoption (concept of delivering MVP) is mandatory.
• Good to have handled atleast 2 eCOM or e-Portal development projects including it s deployment and maintenance. Additional knowledge of delivering multi-platform mobile apps is an advantage.
• Good to have working experience in US, UK or Europe for atleast 2 years (should have stayed onsite for extended period).
• Highly assertive and ability to drive the onsite teams to seek information or clarification.
• Self-Managed and highly independent.
• Healthcare or life science domain will be highly preferred.

Technology skills:

• Strong and proven background in Information Technology.
• Strong working knowledge of . NET, C#, ASP. NET MVC, Web Services, WCF Rest and Web API
• Working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, HTML 5 and CSS 3, Bootstrap technologies
• Working knowledge of MS SQL Databases
• Working knowledge of ESB or Message Queuing (MSMQ).
• Microservices is an added advantage.

Methodology skills

• AGILE, TDD, UML