Software Engineering Lead I - Java

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Position summary

We are looking for a proactive, self-starting and experienced Dev Lead to join its operations. This position is based out in Noida/Gurgaon location and ideal for a hands-on technical lead who has a good understanding of development methodologies and process and experience applying them within an organizational setting.

As a lead position, this role requires an individual who can take overall ownership for the development process, working with stakeholders to ensure releases are delivered on time and develop the system according to design/processes and managing risks where appropriate.

In addition to team management this position will involve hands-on development build as well. It is a highly technical position and will require strong knowledge of JAVA, Dev Ops, Databases, and other cloud related technologies.

What Youll Do

• Managing a team of Dev Engineers, assigning tasks and tracking progress to completion.
• Responsible for planning all development activities and managing development environments to ensure timely and compliant releases.
• Identify and implement improvements in the development process, including automation.
• The candidate will be expected to take ownership of development tasks and will produce high quality software to deliver on these tasks.
• The candidate is expected to be well versed in principles and best practices in software development and should be able to apply them within the boundaries and constraints of the project they work in.
• With a strong focus on software quality, productivity and delivery, the candidate will seek value in and exercise all aspects of DevOps.
• The candidate should be able to design or assist in designing components and subsystems based on the requirements and specifications provided by the Business Analysts.
• They should be able to decompose their development tasks based on their designs and provide development estimates.

Duties & accountabilities

Technical

• Strong knowledge and practical hands-on experience of Java 8 onwards
• Experience with CI/CD and pipeline integration
• Solid software design skills, understanding of microservices.
• Understanding of multi-threading
• Understand and write performant, testable and maintainable code
• Knowledge of relational databases particularly Postgres
• Skill Set should include Spring, Git, Microservices, AWS, JMS(Active MQ), Docker, Kubernetes, RESTful Web Services.

Business competencies

Management requirements

• Ability to manage the Dev efforts, identifying and assigning tasks to team members and tracking through to completion.
• Able to provide regular progress and status updates to key stakeholders.
• Ability to take ownership and lead projects streams independently with little or no supervision.
• Ability to mentor junior team members and oversee their efforts.
• Experience of performance management of individuals

Personal competencies

Personal impact

• Passion for coding and attention to detail
• Strong desire to learn new technologies, methods, and tools.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.

Communication

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - both verbal and written.
• Ability to report accurate test status and progress to the Leaders and other stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with global team members.

Teamwork

• Willingness to be flexible and adapt to project priorities and processes and ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a globally distributed software development team.
• Work closely with Dev team, QA team and BA team members globally to deliver high quality solutions in aggressive time frames.