Lead Software Engineer - Java

Do you take pride in your web development ability? Would you like to use your skills in an energetic atmosphere?

The opportunity-

We are looking to hire a talented PHP developer to manage our back-end services and ensure a seamless interchange of data between the server and our users. As a PHP developer, you will be responsible for developing and coding all server-side logic. You will also be required to maintain the central database and respond to requests from front-end developers.

About You

As a PHP Developer, you should have in-depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming, an understanding of MVC designs, and working knowledge of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Ultimately, a top-level PHP Developer can design and build efficient PHP modules while seamlessly integrating front-end technologies.

Job Responsibilities-

• Write “clean”, well-designed code
• Produce detailed specifications
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.
• Troubleshoot, test, and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Follow industry best practices
• Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary

• Bachelor’s degree in degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
• Relevant 1- 3 years of software development experience in PHP
• Proficient in PHP, Javascript, MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, CSS, and HTML
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including AngularJS, React JS, and HTML5.
• Good knowledge of OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, MVC, and REST API development.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, JQuery, Javascript, AJAX, etc
• Demonstrated attention to detail & Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Java (Preferably)
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms and coding
• Experience with any Messaging technologies like Kafka or Rab-bitMQ, etc.
• Proven experience in database technologies like NoSQL
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework.
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Attend team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Ability to understand the Platform/domain of the business in detail & Ability to multi-task.
• Good communication and organizational skill

• Professional experience in enterprise java software development using Spring MVC framework , RESTful  APIs and SOA
• Experience working in Cloud(AWS)
• Outstanding problem solving skills
• API Development experience
• Exposure to monitoring tools such as ELK, Splunk
• Experience with Selenium for UI automated tests written in Cucumber or Scala
•  Able to handle day-to-day challenges and owning the resolution of issues as they arise.

What you will be doing

• Building and maintaining Java micro services.
• Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.
• Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Java based services.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.
• Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.
• Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

What you need to be successful

• Has proven himself as a solid individual contributor and has some initial management ability
• Understands the culture and upholds it
• Well respected with the team
• Looking to grow more as a manager than as an engineer
• Split time b/w hands-on technical work and people management of a small team
• Be a role model for the people in your team
• Responsible for team mentorship, technical planning, resource allocation & project delivery
• Build solid working relationships with counterparts outside engineering
• If we shortlist you for a lead role, then you'll have to mentor SDE-1 towards their SDE-2 journey.
• Progress up to manager in 2-3 years
• Strong Data Structure and Algorithms
• Experience of building micro services architectures, developing RESTful services,continuous integration, unit and integration testing.
• Proficient with SpringBoot, Hibernate, JUnit and other Java frameworks apart from RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Gauge or other BDD frameworks and experience in Fintech would be preferred.

1. Expert knowledge of & experience with development language with PHP/Node.JS, Java.
2. Excellent Development Knowledge in Website, web-application, web-tools
3. Good in handling both Frontend and backend Development
4. An excitement for detail-oriented work and high-quality finishing
5. Excellent attention to detail and problem solving capabilities
6. Ability to clearly communicate and explain complex concepts effectively
7. A passion for app development and a start-up style work environment
8. Expert knowledge of latest versions programming language as PHP, Java, JavaScript with respective to Database support.
9. Experience in handling API Keys and access controls
10. Knowledge of server systems is advantageous

Key Skills:

1. Web Technologies
2. Java script
3. HTML/CSS
4. Application Design
5. API
6. Web Development

You have experience in tackling organization wide challenges which are complex initiative that span multiple teams and products. Strong bias for operational and engineering excellence. critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions. You like to find patterns that can reuse across multiple stacks, and willingness to help organisations adopt newer technologies. You are a great communicator and you take care setting high benchmarks in technical design choices. You spend a lot of time on research and love to discuss pros/cons of all choices and helping others towards making careful decisions.

Responsibilities:

• You will participate in all aspects of our development and provide expertise on architecture decisions we'll need to make to solve organisational problems.
• Driving technical roadmaps for the organisation.
• Set the north star for all key technical metrics to monitor and set high standards.
• Identify and articulate current state architecture and clarity on final state architecture and build organisation level influence to drive this to conclusion.
• Coaching / mentoring folks across the organisation on various technologies.
• Improve the recruiting and hiring process.
• Thinks about culture and how to impact it.
• Build, develop and scale our platform that powers real estate agents, buyers and sellers.
• Become a domain expert on real estate technology and products and an empathetic partner to our customers.
• Inspire, recruit and mentor your engineering colleagues.
• Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive. efficiencies.

Requirements:

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent.
• Proven track record working in top talent and high performance environments.
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments.
• Experience with modern web frameworks (e. g. Go/React), distributed computing (e. g. Spark), public cloud platforms (e. g. AWS) and data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerisation, microservices architecture, continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance.
• 10+ years experience.

• Published Engineering blogs.
• Experience with multiple well-known products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance.
• External presentations in events.