Tech Lead

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers building solutions and capabilities at scale and high engineering and quality standards.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand business problems and then design and develop required solutions.
• Partner with architects to ensure developed solutions adhere to established best patterns and our architectural target state.
• Provide technical thought leadership towards solving problems for the team.
• Drive the adoption of key engineering best practices to improve quality and reliability of team's deliverables.
• Responsible for keeping the team engaged, motivated and operating with a high execution velocity.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring of direct reports.
• Develop and nurture a team of developers by motivating and mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.
• Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed services.
• Guiding developers in day-to-day design and coding tasks, stepping in to code if needed.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review. Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques.
• Ensure proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• 7+ years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) in Computer Science/Engineering.
• 5+ years of people management experience in agile software development.
• Dynamic leader who has directly managed team of highly competent developers in fast paced work environment.
• Strong software product development background with a passion for building cloud based applications with high levels of reliability, availability and security.
• Very good understanding of Enterprise Application Life Cycle Management needs.
• Significant experience building REST based web services & web applications using Java and Spring framework.
• Experience building service-oriented solutions and Restful microservices and a strong understanding of Java multi-threading, concurrency, and memory management.
• Proficient in working with relational databases as well as NoSQL technologies like MongoDB, MySQL and Redis.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) and building automation around their APIs.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure, ensuring high-availability, scaling, service discovery, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns and operational characteristics of highly
• available and scalable applications.
• Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and passion to implement these across teams.
• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to
• changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational level internally and externally.