Principal Backend Engineer - Java/Spring Frameworks (7-10 yrs)

About the Role :

As a Principal Engineer, you will be working closely with product managers, QA engineers, designers & software engineers, and will be responsible for designing, building, deploying and scaling various products as part of the Technology Team at SarvaGram.

You will be responsible to lead one or more backend systems / microservices and deliver the APIs for Front-end Web and Mobile teams. The day to day activity consists of optimising servers for speed and stability, implementing security structures, generating reusable code libraries and generating data storage solutions.

Apart from this, you will also be involved with the product team directly in deciding the requirements, estimating delivery date for a particular feature and documenting the technical details for developing it.

Who are you :

- You are a fast learner, with an eye for detail, strong problem-solving and debugging skills, and the following

- Strong individual contributor who can complete work autonomously with no regular need for review

- Capable of running and directing small teams for substantial projects

- Driving code reviews, design reviews and architecture discussions

- Fully capable of owning and running entire subsystems of work, helping set and maintain professional standards for the entire team

- Deep, substantial expertise in multiple programming environments, with a zeal for driving technology & best practices in Engineering

- Scaling, Performance, and ensuring High-Availability & Quality of the products

- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption

- Experience in developing distributed data processing, stream or batch, systems

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

- Coordinate with architects, development team & business analysts;

Must have :

- 7 to 10 years of experience in back-end development (Designing, developing, testing and deploying large scale applications)

- Expertise in Java and Spring Framework - Java 8 or higher.

- 3+ years of experience with AWS cloud platform.

- Must have experience in leading and managing a team.

- Strong organizational and time-management skills.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to meet communicated deadlines and release project with minimal bugs

- Experience in SQL & NoSQL databases (Redis / MongoDB)

- Experience in designing and developing high volume web-services using API protocols and data formats

- Proficient in API modelling languages and annotation

- Exposure to Amazon Web Services (ECS) for release management and (Lambda/S3) for application development.

Preferred Qualification :

- Bachelors / Master's degree in computer science or related field.

Good to have :

- Experience building and using ETL systems and integrations.

- Exposure to Kafka

- Familiarity with front side platforms such Javascript, HTML5, CSS3 and React / Angular / Vue

Measures of Success :

- Writing quality and bug free code adhering to the functional and non-functional requirements

- Follow standard practices (Unit Tests, Reduce technical debt, Code Coverage, Integration Test, etc)

- Excellent troubleshooting skills - Memory leaks, GC tuning