Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary... Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.

Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness.

Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

• Guide the team in architectural decisions and best practices for building scalable applications.
• Provide multiple alternatives for development frameworks, libraries, and tools.

• Java Frameworks:
  • Spring Boot : Our default choice for creating production-grade Spring-based applications. You should be well versed in building REST, Streaming and Batch applications using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Micronaut : Your knowledge of Micronaut or a related framework that can be used as a alternative of Spring Boot will help us in building modular, easily testable microservice applications.
• Persistence Frameworks:
  • Hibernate : A thorough understanding of this Object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for data handling is required. You will be building applications using Spring Data built on top of Hibernate.
  • MyBatis : As a technical leader you should have broaden your understanding to MyBatis or any other persistence frameworks other than Hibernate for leveraging custom SQL, stored procedures, and advanced mappings.
• Big Data Processing:
  • Apache Spark : It is our unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Prior experience in Java Spark or python spark projects is desirable.
• Streaming Frameworks:
  • Apache Kafka : We extensivily use this distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines. Knowledge and prior experience of Apache Kafka is a must.
  • Apache Pulsar : Your understanding of Multi-tenant, high-performance messaging solution will help us in building platforms.

• JUnit : The standard framework for unit testing all our Java applications.
• TestNG : We also use TestNG to cover other categories of tests.
• Mockito : Being a downstream application, we use this framework for creating mock objects for testing purposes when we are not able to engage upstream for testing..
• MockMVC : We are also using this testing framework for Java and Groovy applications.

• Spring Test : Provides integration testing support for Spring applications.
• Testcontainers : Provides throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
• WireMock : A simulator for HTTP-based APIs, useful for integration testing.
• Cucumber : Supports Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and can be used for writing integration tests in a natural language format.
• Embedded Kafka : For running Kafka brokers locally during integration testing.

• Selenium : Browser automation tool for web application testing.
• Cypress : Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
• RestAssured : For testing REST APIs.
• Gatling : For performance testing of web applications.
• Karate : A framework for API testing, performance testing, and even UI testing.

• Jenkins : Extensible open-source CI/CD server.
• GitLab CI : Integrated CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
• CircleCI : Continuous integration and delivery platform.
• Travis CI : Continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub.
• Argo CD : Declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  • Terraform : For building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
  • Ansible : Automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.
  • Kubernetes : For container orchestration.
• Service Mesh:
  • Istio : Open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices.
  • Linkerd : Lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes.

• Conduct workshops and training sessions to enable the team to become proficient in CI/CD practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the team.
• Provide guidance and support in the adoption of best practices for software development, testing, and deployment.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events

• Perform regular code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Implement and monitor code quality tools such as SonarQube or CodeClimate.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation for the development processes, tools, and best practices.
• Facilitate effective communication within the team and across departments to ensure alignment on goals and objectives.
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.

• Bachelors/Master s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 10+ years of experience in software design, development and automated deployments.
• Have prior experience in delivering highly scalable large scale data processing Java applications.
• Strong in high and low level system design. Should be experienced in designing data intensive applications in open stack.
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
• Should be experienced in CICD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC
• Hands on experience building Java-based backend systems and experience of working in cloud based solutions is a must. Should be proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Spark.
• Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Posseses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.
• Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.
• Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB.
• Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.
• Experience in event based systems like Kafka.
• Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.
• Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage.