LogiNext - Principal Engineer - Backend Technologies (8-10 yrs)

Job Description :

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced senior developer to lead development efforts. You will help the team grow in size and skills, optimizing their code while working on your own. You will design, and develop the products that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit. You will collaborate on scalability issues involving access to massive amounts of data and information.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You are biased towards open-source tools and existing frameworks. You have successfully shipped applications with beautiful front-end and intelligent backend. You have demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities :

- Co-lead end-to-end design and development efforts for high-volume, low-latency applications for real-time event based systems

- Lead and direct senior software engineers, define software architecture, collaborate with other teams to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation of platform modules and features

- Deliver high-availability and high-performance platform using microservices architecture

- Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in code, and devise solutions to production and non-production issues

- Keep an eye out for open source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products

- Transform business functionalities and production specifications into technical requirements and low level design

- Be hands-on, adopt a practical approach to software and technology

- Work with product management and other teams to build highly scalable products

Requirements :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

- 8 to 10 years of design and development experience in scalable and distributed enterprise applications using Java/J2EE, JPA, Spring framework and RESTful web services

- Excellent coding skills in Java

- Experience in managing, implementing and optimizing big data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

- Experience in deploying applications and using various managed services provided by cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

- Experience in front-end technologies HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AngularJS, React and D3.js is preferred

- Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design

- Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership