Lead Software Engineer

Job Requirements:

Intermediate Linux Knowledge

• Experience with shell scripting
• Familiarity with Linux commands such as grep, awk, sed
• Required

Advanced Python Scripting Knowledge

• Strong expertise in Python
• Required

Ruby

• Nice to have

Basic Knowledge of Network Protocols

• Understanding of TCP/UDP, Multicast/Unicast
• Required

Packet Captures

• Experience with tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, tshark
• Nice to have

High-Performance Messaging Libraries

• Familiarity with tools like Tibco, 29West, LBM, Aeron
• Nice to have

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of web applications.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other developers to build user-friendly features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that adheres to coding standards and best practices.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement responsive design to ensure consistent user experience across all devices.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and integrate with third-party services and APIs.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance.
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and consistency across the team.
• Stay updated on the latest industry trends and best practices in full-stack development.
• Contribute to an agile development process, attending sprints, standups, and retrospectives.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks (React.js, Next.js, Angular, or Vue.js).
• Strong experience in back-end technologies such as Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP.
• Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is a plus.
• Experience in microservices based architecture is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

The Full-Stack Engineer role involves working across prosuct development stack, including various backend systems, frontend systems as well as quick prototyping of proof-of-concept features and projects.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting Figuring out all levels of designing and structuring systems, deciding on optimal levels of abstraction and future-proofing, patterns of orchestration of components and finally planning its execution.
• Implementation Should be able to structure and write code like prose for others to read, design and adhere to common principles and patterns that make everyone better at their jobs. Should have the ability to contribute according to timelines and type of projects - from working POCs to stable production code and the ability to work with a large breadth of knowledge.
• Orchestration and integration Interact with the larger engineering team for integrating your work into the ecosystem, help others in building over the base that you provide, help in orchestrating your work into CI/CD, testing, QA and automation pipelines.
• Mentorship We all love to learn and grow as engineers and human beings and we believe in synchronous growth as a team fueled by each and every individual's personal abilities, specializations, and interests.
• To enable this you'll be required to mentor others by sharing your expertise in various forms and be subject to be mentored by others and thus maintain a continuous learning culture.
• Ownership End-to-end ownership of services and specialised components required for various projects - starting from prototypal stage to production-hardened. These may include anything from document parsing to solving problems using deep learning.
• Documentation Create advanced technical content including articles, samples, whitepapers, and training.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

•  Bachelors or master’s in software engineering, Computer Science or other relevant disciplines
•  5+ years experience as a Back-End or Full Stack Developer with hands-on experience working with Python with  3+ years Preferably with AWS Services knowledge (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Queues, Topics, etc)
•  Strong Knowledge in Python v3.x Language
•  Experience in REST APIs with JSON
•  Error handling and Logging 
•  Any DB knowledge 
•  Knowledge in Node.js is an added advantage
•  Knowledge in implementing Terraform is a plus
•  Knowledge on Sumo Logic log aggregation is a plus
• Must know how to produce high quality, “Clean” code that is performant, maintainable and secure