Lead Software Development Engineer

Samsung Ecommerce is seeking passionate and talented Engineering Leads who have experience building innovative & high volume applications. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Samsung Ecommerce is currently in the process of expanding its marketplace platform to add more features and to expand it globally.

As part of the team, you will:

• Be responsible for expanding the feature set of the platform in an extensible and scalable manner
• Own individual modules and act as the technical SME for them
• Work end to end on micro-services and SPAs built on cutting edge technologies like NodeJs, React.js, Ember and Vue.js
• Work with great Engineers and solve difficult problems aimed at making the Customer experience seamless
• Get the experience of building products from the scratch and taking them all the way to production
• Mentor and groom junior developers and help them to produce great code
• Work with business and provide solutions to problems faced by customers

You will be expected to be able to:

• Focuses on ambiguous problem areas in existing or new software initiatives
• Fixes architecture deficiencies and/or proposes larger projects, which may require the work of a team
• Understands the business impact of your systems.
• Shows good judgment on technical trade-offs between short-term team needs vs. long-term business needs
• Guides future technology choices
• Makes needed architectural trade-offs (e.g., coarse or fine grained service separation?)
• Writes software that is easy for others to contribute to
• Owns team architecture; provides a system-wide view and design guidance
• Resolves root causes of endemic problems maybe where your team limits innovation: influences software decisions made by other teams.
• Lead a small team of developers and take care of the deliverables for the team.

Skills needed:

• Strong analytical and programming skills
• Strong knowledge in Data structures and Algorithms
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Good understanding of Object oriented programming concepts
• Good understanding of web technologies
• Quick learner with passion to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and being a team player
• Attention to details and striving for perfection
• Experience with mentoring junior developers/leading a small team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors / Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field in a reputed institution
• 6+ Years professional experience in software development with most of them from a product company
• Proficient in web development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with working in Linux based environment
• Good communication and design skills