Lead Engineer for Dev Ops Team

Job Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer (SDE III) with over 5 years of experience to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in software development, deep technical expertise, and a proven track record of successfully leading large-scale engineering teams and projects. This role requires strategic leadership, the ability to manage complex technical challenges, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational excellence.As a Backend Lead, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across the business, product management, and operations to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and play a critical role in shaping the technology roadmap and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Team Development: Lead and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Manage the hiring, training, and career development of engineering staff.
• Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement engineering strategies that support business objectives. Define technology roadmaps and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Technical Excellence: Guide the team in designing and implementing scalable, robust software systems. Drive the adoption of best practices in architecture, coding standards, and software testing to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Project and Program Management: Oversee the successful delivery of engineering projects, ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and budget constraints are met. Use agile methodologies to manage the development process and resolve bottlenecks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Business, and Operations teams to define project requirements and deliverables. Ensure the smooth integration of engineering efforts across the organization.
• Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate technical risks and roadblocks. Proactively identify areas of technical debt and drive initiatives to reduce it.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, resource allocation, and performance metrics. Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-impact software projects.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and scalable system design.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages and modern development frameworks For this role we require expertise in Python/Django and API Development
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), microservices, and distributed systems.
• Good experience with MySQL and ElasticSearch. Slight experience with other NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
•  Experience in delivering full-stack B2B/SaaS applications including mobile applications, web frontend, and a scalable backend.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams and stakeholders at all levels.

Job Description

Build and maintain bots on Azure platform.  Integration with Active directory, WEB API based integration with external systems. Training and Integrate bots as per users’ requirements. Work in line with design guidelines, best practices and standards of bot deliverable. Creative approach to the conversation flow design, human aspects in the bot responses and sentiments

Qualifications

1. a) 5 years of experience in software development with clear understanding of the project life cycle
   b) Min 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Bot Framework, LUIS and other Cognitive services offered by Azure
   c) Hands on experience with Machine Learning based chat bots
   d) Experience with Azure bot services like Text Analytics etc.
   e)Strong database skills and hands-on experience on databases like SQL Server/Oracle
2. f) Strong experience on Azure Active directory and adaptive cards integration in Chat bot.
3. g) Strong experience designing and working with

with service-oriented architectures (SOA) and WebAPIs.

1. h) A strong experience on Microsoft Azure, ASPNET / MVC and programming languages such as C#/VBNET
2. i) Knowledge of Python and NodeJS is a plus
3. j) Ability to design and optimize SQL Server 2008 stored procedures.
4. k) Experience with JQuery, CSS3, HTML5 or similar technologies.
5. l) Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment.

• Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems
• Sound knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/java-tutorial/oops-interview-questions" target="_blank">Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts
• Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns
• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries 
• Knowhow of Java concurrency patterns
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services
• Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark
• Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, AWT according to project requirements
• Ability to write clean, readable Java code
• Basic knowhow of class loading mechanism in Java
• Experience in handling external and embedded databases
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes
• Basic knowledge of https://www.simplilearn.com/jvm-and-the-implications-of-sandbox-model-rar41-article" target="_blank">JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests 
• In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git
• Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc
• Expertise in continuous integration

• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of application
• Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
• Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
• Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results

Good proficiency in,

• Python frameworks like Django, etc.
• Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
• Core Python fundamentals and programming
• Code packaging, release, and deployment
• Database knowledge
• Circles, conditional and control statements
• Object-relational mapping
• Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket

Fundamental understanding of,

• Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
• AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
• Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
• Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
• Creating predictive models
• Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
• Multi-process architecture
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system

• Build robust & scalable web applications
• Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting & delivery of web applications.
• Design and create relational database schema & application framework as needed
• Work with a worldwide team to integrate the product to meet the requirement

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science from a top-tier institution
• Relevant full-time work experience of 4-8 years
• Strong foundation in computer science, with solid competencies in object-oriented software design patterns, software QA methodologies, processes, and test automation.
• Ability to self-teach.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• PHP, Javascript/AJAX, SOAP/REST, GIT
• MySQL/NoSQL
• Linux
• Software development life cycle (SDLC)

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Linux scripting