Backend Lead - Media Processing & Delivery

Overview

adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Senior backend Developer specializing in FSE tools to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing user interfaces that enhance our customer experience. Your contributions will play a critical role in driving the success of our projects by creating dynamic, intuitive, and responsive web applications.

Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, and enhance web applications using front end tools to create seamless, user-friendly experiences.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, product managers, and backend developers, to deliver high-quality products.

Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code while adhering to best practices in frontend development.

Perform code reviews, optimize application performance, and debug issues for a smooth user experience.

Stay updated on the latest FSE features and web development trends to bring innovative ideas to the team.

Skills & Requirements

Java, Spring Framework / Spring Boot, APIs (e.g. REST, RESTful API), Unit testing (e.g JUnit, Mockito ), Build Tools (e.g. maven, gradle), CI/CD (e.g. Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps), DEV Tools (e.g. Git, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence), Quality Tools (e.g. SonarQube, SonarCloud, Findbugs, PMD, OWASP checker, …), Spring Ecosystem (e.g. Spring Data, Spring REST, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, …), Java Commons (e.g. Apache Commons), Other APIs (e.g. SOAP, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent-Events / SSE, gRPC), API Documentation (e.g. OpenAPI, Swagger, …), Integration testing / E2E testing (e.g. Selenium, Testcontainers, Cucumber), Containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes / K18n), Cloud experience (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).Java Enterprise / Java EE (e.g. EJB, CDI, JPA, JSF, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JMS), Other Java Frameworks (e.g. Quarkus), Messaging (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, …), NoSQL DB (e.g. MongoDB, Neo4j), Performance testing (e.g. Gatling), Single-Sign-On (e.g. OAuth2, Open ID Connect, JWT, SAML), Monitoring, Logging & Tracing in the frontend application, Experience with Linux operating systems, Shell-Scripting.

• Min 5 years of hands-on experience in Java Spring-boot technologies
• Experience with monolithic applications
• Experience using Redis and RabbitMQ
• Experience with RDBMS such as SQLServer and My SQL
• Strong analytical, problem solving and data analysis
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are a must
• Micro service frameworks such as Java SpringBoot
• Design and implement automated unit and integration tests 

You have 5 years or more of Backend end development experience with expertise in designing and implementing high-performance applications.

Worked with and built high-performance products using Node Js/GoLang/ Python and have seen the product evolution cycle from PoC to Production

You have a deep understanding of design principles and can rightly judge/implement solutions to complex problems

You are capable of writing high-quality code that conforms to the standards and best practices in a particular language/framework.

You have experience building a product using a mainstream library or framework.

You love to own end to end responsibility, starting from defining the problem statement (either yourself or alongside your peers), development (PoC if needed), testing, releasing in staging & then production environment, and finally monitoring.

Previous work experience in product-based startups

Experience building for products that have scaled and have seen the product evolution

Data Platform engineering at Uber is looking for a strong Technical Lead (Level 5a Engineer) who has built high quality platforms and services that can operate at scale. 5a Engineer at Uber exhibits following qualities: 

• Demonstrate tech expertise › Demonstrate technical skills to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverageable solutions. 
• Execute large scale projects › Define, plan and execute complex and impactful projects. You communicate the vision to peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across teams › Domain resource to engineers outside your team and help them leverage the right solutions. Facilitate technical discussions and drive to a consensus.
• Coach engineers › Coach and mentor less experienced engineers and deeply invest in their learning and success. You give and solicit feedback, both positive and negative, to others you work with to help improve the entire team.
• Tech leadership › Lead the effort to define the best practices in your immediate team, and help the broader organization establish better technical or business processes.

What You’ll Do

• Build a scalable, reliable, operable and performant data analytics platform for Uber’s engineers, data scientists, products and operations teams.
• Work alongside the pioneers of big data systems such as Hive, Yarn, Spark, Presto, Kafka, Flink to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software system for Uber’s planet scale of data. 
• Become proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale, service while building these capabilities for Uber's engineers and operation folks.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years experience in building large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment.
• Architecture: Identify and solve major architectural problems by going deep in your field or broad across different teams. Extend, improve, or, when needed, build solutions to address architectural gaps or technical debt.
• Software Engineering/Programming: Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable. advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Java, Python, Go, and Scala.
• Platform Engineering: Solid understanding of distributed systems and operating systems fundamentals such as concurrency, multithreading, file systems, locking etc.
• Execution & Results: You tackle large technical projects/problems that are not clearly defined. You anticipate roadblocks and have strategies to de-risk timelines. You orchestrate work that spans multiple teams and keep your stakeholders informed.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others’ candid feedback for continuous improvement.
• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.

• Lead the engineering effort across projects 
• Interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages including Application Architecture, Design and Development
• Understand client's business requirements and be able to map them to technology solutions and make them work
• Design and build modern solutions informed by a deep understanding of cloud architecture and how distributed systems operate at scale
• Provide regular support and guidance to teams on complex coding, issue resolution and execution 
• Establish and enforce best development and engineering practices including QA and DevOps
• Lead and manage your own team, but also get down to coding, testing, and designing solutions as and when needed
• Communicate effectively with teams, clients and business leaders within the company

• Minimum 6+ years of experience designing and building full stack applications using UI frameworks like Angular, React or Vue.JS and backend frameworks like Node.JS/ExpressJS or Python/Django/Flask or Laravel/Yii2/Symphony
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Technical Lead mentoring team of 3 to 5 developers
• Strong knowlegde of cloud and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, Azure). Cloud certifications would be an added advantage.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with Graph databases like Neo4j is desirable.
• Proficient in Git and CI-CD frameworks
• Strong communicator with visual, verbal, and writing skills to clearly articulate complex design problems and solutions
• Ability to work in an agile environment