Senior/Lead Software Engineer(Python, Microservices)

The Talent Acquisition Specialist – IT Recruitment is responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring high-quality technical talent in line with business requirements. The role focuses on timely, cost-effective, and quality-driven hiring while building strong talent pipelines and delivering an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience through data-driven recruitment practices.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with hiring managers to understand current and future IT hiring needs

Translate business requirements into structured recruitment plans with timelines and deliverables

Conduct detailed role intake discussions covering skills, experience, and behavioral competencies

Manage end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to offer closure

Source candidates through multiple channels including job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, and internal databases

Screen, interview, and assess candidates to build high-quality shortlists

Schedule and coordinate interviews while ensuring smooth candidate experience

Provide market insights and hiring recommendations to stakeholders

Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and recurring IT roles

Track recruitment metrics such as TAT, quality of hire, and cost efficiency

Job Description

Position Title: Java Technical Lead/Manager

Position Type: Full Time, Permanent

Department: Research and Development

Reports to: R&D Manager, Indian Development Centre.

Company Background:

-CGLIA is a software development company building highly available, highly secure, cloud-based enterprise software products that helps speed the research process resulting in new drugs, new devices, and new treatments to improve the health and wellbeing of world population.

- At CGLIA, our work shows our dedication and passion for innovative quality software products that are intuitive and easy to use and exceeds every aspect of customer expectations.

- CGLIA, is the place that develops world-class professionals who would like to be innovative, creative, learn continuously, and build a solid foundation to build products that are special and delight the customer.

Job Summary:

As a Technical Manager, you will be providing the guidance to all the team members in designing, implementing and delivering the technical solutions.

Also, responsible to maintaining the existing product line with high quality and timely deliverables by working closely with product teams.

In this role, you will be hiring the new development staff, oversee each aspect of the development process, and act as a liaison between development team and upper management. Also ensures that team is fully trained and able to perform their jobs.

Should possess strong leadership skills and ability to resolve the challenges quickly.

Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to project planning and effort estimation.
• Demonstrate exceptional requirements gathering skills and support requirement gathering sessions.
• Contribute to technical design of business solutions.
• Support leadership team in development RFP’s and service offerings.
• Review and analyze relevant documentation to ensure the understanding of an organization function and capabilities.
• Conduct relevant research to increase understanding in support of developing comprehensive solutions.
• Comply with all the relevant policies and procedures and complete all the documents that are required.
• Conducting performance reviews, handling the employee complaints
• Willing to undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as may be reasonably expected of the role and as necessary in order to achieve the objectives of the organization.

Qualifications: (Education, Experience, Skills and Knowledge)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or any equivalent degree.
• At least 8 plus years of hands on experience in developing cloud-based software along with 2 plus years of Management experience.
• Expertise with more than one of the Software Development Methodologies.
• Expertise in designing and developing cloud based high available distributed applications and must have extensive experience in object-oriented design.
• Strong hands on experience in using Java, Hibernate, Spring technology stack (Spring MVS, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Spring spiral, Spring security etc.) along with open source technologies.
• Experience building web and mobile applications using frontend technologies Angular (Angular 1/Angular 2), Bootstrap, Material Design, UX/UI, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
• Demonstrated Experience on databases like MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• An understanding on handling of large data sources. (Desirable)
• Expertise on the Code Static Analyzer tools like SonarQube, PMD and, DevOps Tools.
• Expertise in using any Unit testing Frameworks like Junit.
• Knowledge in Security related to Web Applications and mobile applications. and other open source and commercial tools.
• Demonstrable and substantial experience in leading and managing teams of software developers.
• Impeccable written English skills, and Oral communication skills along with outstanding interpersonal skills.
• Results-oriented, detail-oriented, and well organized.

Technical Manager: Requires sufficient Managerial Skills and sufficient technical skills.

Main function has to be focused on people. He or She can and should learn new things in technology,  that is required for the role.

• A minimum of 4-10 years of experience into data integration/orchestration services,  service architecture and providing data driven solutions for client requirements 
• Experience on Microsoft Azure cloud and Snowflake SQL, database query/performance tuning. 
• Experience with Qlik Replicate and Compose tools(Change Data Capture) tools is considered a plus 
• Strong Data warehousing Concepts, ETL tools such as Talend Cloud Data Integration tool is must 
• Exposure to the financial domain knowledge is considered a plus. 
• Cloud Managed Services such as source control code Github, MS Azure/Devops is considered a plus. 
• Prior experience with State Street and Charles River Development ( CRD) considered a plus. 
• Experience in tools such as Visio, PowerPoint, Excel. 
• Exposure to Third party data providers such as Bloomberg, Reuters, MSCI and other Rating agencies is a plus. 
• Strong SQL knowledge and debugging skills is a must.

Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java (J2SE) and J2EE technologies.
• Hands-on experience with RESTful services and API design is a must.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture is a must.
• Knowledge of design patterns is a must.
• Strong knowledge of Exception handling and logging mechanism is a must.
• Agile scrum participation experience. Work experience with several agile teams on an application built with microservices and event-based architectures to be deployed in hybrid (on-prem/cloud) environments.
• Good knowledge of Spring framework (MVC, Cloud, Data and Security. Etc) and ORM framework like JPA/Hibernate.
• Experience in managing the Source Code Base through Version Control tools like SVN, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Xoxoday Plum. Plum is a rewarding and incentives infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises of 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture ( Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 25 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have at least 7+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, full-stack developer with modern architecture.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• JavaScript, SQL, NoSQL, PHP
• Frameworks like React, ReactNative, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like ElasticSearch, Redis, MySql, Cassandra, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. You'll report to the co-founder directly.

‍A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment with scale, international flavour, backend, and frontend. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

‍A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

‍We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

• Strong experience working as a .Net developer.
• Proficient in Microsoft .NET development using C#. Experience with web development technologies including http://asp.net/">ASP.NET, MVC, EF, HTML, JavaScript, Angular, JQuery, AJAX, and CSS.
• Experience designing and developing enterprise-grade software.
• Experience with source control management systems and deployment environments.
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization.
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories.
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.