Senior Backend Engineer

UKG is looking to hire a Lead Software Engineer to join our extremely talented Data Science team. As a Lead Software Engineer at UKG, you’ll be embedded on the Data Science team where you can work on the next generation AI Platform. You’ll get to work directly with other Engineers, Software Testers, Business Analysts, Product Managers, and Directors, all of whom make up the team. In this highly collaborative environment, you will have the opportunity to grow as a software engineer, and even help mentor others.

This position requires excellent object-oriented programming skills and knowledge of design patterns. They will be involved in the deployment of our AI Platform/Services solution on the cloud. The job requires you to be able to design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug complex software applications at the enterprise level. We are looking for a software engineer who is passionate about programming and truly enjoys what they do. The ideal candidate for the Python Engineer position is someone who has a can-do attitude and is an innovative thinker.

UKG works in an agile environment where there are daily stand-ups, code reviews, and constant communication within each self-managed cross-functional team. The ability to communicate effectively with Business Analysts and Software Testers, as well as work closely with other team members are key components for success in this position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with members of the team to solve challenging engineering tasks on time and with high quality.
• Engage in code reviews and training of team members.
• Support continuous deployment pipeline code.
• Situationally troubleshoot production issues alongside the support team.
• Continually research and recommend product improvements.
• Create and integrate features for our enterprise software solution using the latest Python technologies.
• Write web services, business objects, and other middle-tier framework using Python
• Actively communicate with team members to clarify requirements and overcome obstacles to meet the team goals.
• Leverage open-source and other technologies and languages outside of the Python platform.
• Develop cutting-edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and distributed processing capabilities of the system.
• Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis for production issues that are escalated to the engineering team.
• Work with development teams in an agile context as it relates to software development, including Kanban, automated unit testing, test fixtures, and pair programming.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience as a Python developer on enterprise projects using Python, Flask, FastAPI, Django, PyTest, Celery and other Python frameworks.
• Software development experience including: object-oriented programming, concurrency programming, modern design patterns, RESTful service implementation, micro-service architecture, test-driven development, and acceptance testing.
• Familiarity with tools used to automate the deployment of an enterprise software solution to the cloud, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Concourse, Ansible, etc.
• Proficiency with Git as a version control system
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB and MSSQL.
• Experience with object-oriented languages: Python, Java, Scala, C#, etc.
• Experience with testing tools such as PyTest, Wiremock, xUnit, mocking frameworks, etc.
• Experience with GCP technologies such as BigQuery, GKE, GCS, DataFlow, Kubeflow, and/or VertexAI
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.

• End-to-end ownership of new feature development, from design, through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance in production
• Translating of high-level requirements and end-user use cases into design proposals, including integration with external services and constraints of underlying service infrastructure
• Maintaining constant focus on scalability, performance and robustness of a feature, on the top of base functional implementation
• Designing and implementing logging, monitoring and alerting functions as core parts of overall software solution
• Documenting your own work and design solutions
• Decomposing complex features into smaller, short-term deliverable tasks
• Managing priorities of multiple tasks, providing up-to-date estimates for a milestone delivery

• 5+ of industry experience in technical leadership roles
• Solid knowledge of Go-Lang, Python, C/C++, SQL, shell scripting and Linux operating environment.
• End-to-end experience in design and development of highly scalable enterprise and cloud data products.
• Ability to challenge and redefine existing architectural fundamentals in order to provide next level of performance and scalability; ability to foresee post-deployment challenges.
• Hands-on experience with design and troubleshooting of scalable web services, advanced file systems, geographic replication, distributed databases and modern operating systems.
• Experience with modern DevOps technologies such as Docker and container orchestration, service deployment, monitoring and scaling
• Ability to work with multi-cultural, globally distributed teams to a common unifying product vision and closely coordinate with cross-functional teams in different time-zones.
• Passion to deliver enterprise-grade products to customers and to continuously work with engineering team to refine the product in the field.

• Proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Classloading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)
• Experience in the Spring Framework
• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer
• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web

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The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

We are looking for a humble, but ambitious, razor-sharp engineering technical leader who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take product development, cloud services research and platform engineering seriously; you’re passionate about technology and, even more so, about leadership. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints. That’s where you come in.

We are currently seeking a Fullstack technical lead of core product development to help senior management drive the technical vision, architectural guidance and provide leadership for a team of software engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment. Our selection process will emphasize hands-on engineering and other technical or architectural skills as well as leadership/management/SDLC process/organizational skills equally. The ideal candidate must be a master of their domain and be able to contribute as an individual contributor (software engineer and architect) half of the time. Furthermore, the ideal candidate must be able to improve SDLC and Scrum processes or inspire, champion and teach his / her team when the need arises. We are looking for a rare mix of intelligence, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal and written agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of technically astute engineers.

mail resume fullstack @ theintegrityglobal.com

• Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy
• Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities
• Directly or indirectly drive projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level
• Hire, onboard, develop and manage back-end and user interface engineers
• Manage technical debt 
• Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product and features
• Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building the highly reusable codebase
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior engineers. Create an environment for engineers to continually reach new heights within their career

• The ability to take technical ownership of assigned projects from high-level project scope down to details of the individual class and API design
• Experience in a product-based environment, balancing the competing priorities of project management, and your development team
• Developed Java-based server-side solutions such as JEE and Spring
• Solid experience and passion for working with data structures and data model
• Proficiency in Hibernate and SQL
• Passion and commitment to work in a start-up environment.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Developed solutions using AWS services. 
• Developed scalable and distributed solutions
• Experience with JavaScript, ReactJS/ AngularJS, Docker, relational databases
• Experience with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, S3, Kinesis, EMR
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a reputed institution. Master’s degree preferred. 
• 9+ years of full-stack development experience
• Experience in leading software development teams before, ideally using Agile Scrum methodology

• Experience level of 6 to 9 years of experience in very large-scale applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills, computer science fundamentals, data structures and
• algorithms their space & time complexities
• Design (LLD & HLD) and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a very large-scale portal.
• Strong hands-on and practical working experience with Java as the programming language
• Strong debugging skills - Code, Logs, DB, JVM
• Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert design into code fluently.
• Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform