Lead Software Developer - Backend Architecture (4-7 yrs)

Job location : Remote in India

About the role :

The Lead Software Developer - Backend will work as part of the Digitization and Automation team to support Sun King in designing, developing, and implementing intelligent, tech-enabled solutions to help solve a large variety of our business problems. We are looking for candidates with an affinity for technology and automations, curiosity towards advancement in products, and strong coding skills for our in-house software development team.

What you will be expected to do :

- Design and build applications/systems based on wireframes and product requirements documents.

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

- Identify and correct bottlenecks/bugs according to operational requirements.

- Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs.

- Create prototypes and proof-of-concepts for iterative development.

- Take complete ownership of projects (end to end) and their development cycle.

- Mentoring and guiding team members.

- Unit test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.

- Integrate existing tools and business systems (in-house tools or business tools like ticketing software and communication tools) with external services.

- Coordinate with Product Manager, development team, & business analysts.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are :

- A minimum of 4 years of experience.

- Deep knowledge of OOPS concepts and programming skills in Core Java, Spring Framework.

- Experience in web service development and integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML).

- Should be very strong in problem solving, data structures, and algorithms.

- Strong experience in SQL.

- Experience in the AWS suite (Ec2, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway).

- Experience in scripting languages like Python.

- Experience in Microservice Architecture.

- Prior managing/mentoring experience.

- Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of the software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment.

Good to have :

- Knowledge on messaging systems RabbitMQ, Kafka.

- Container-based application deployment (Docker or equivalent)

- Willing to learn new technologies and implement them in products.