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Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Magarpatta City, Pune - India (Work from home until further notice)
Years of Experience 6 to 10 years
What we are looking for
Educational Qualification:
B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc.
Skill Matrix:
Primary Language Skills: Java 8, Scala
Framework: Play Framework
Messaging: Rabbit MQ
Ideologies: TDD / ATDD, Pair Programming
Database: SQL and NoSQL
Challenges
- You will help us continuously improving our platform
- Together we will create best in class services that support the needs of our customers
- Taking part of team ceremonies like grooming, planning and retrospective
- Develop new features
- Improve code quality by doing pair programming or code reviews
- Continuously improve and monitor our product
Key Responsibilities
- Own and consistently deliver high quality end-to-end product features keeping in view technical & business expectations
- Add meaty features to the product which will deliver substantial business value
- Pioneer clean coding and continuous code refactoring
- Understands and appreciates existing design and architecture of the product
- Understands pros and cons of various technology options available
- Takes technical ownership of some of sub-systems of the product
- Makes changes in the product designs to achieve required business value / mileage
- Identify and addresses technical debts
- Understands technical vision and road-map of the product and expectations
- Understands purview of key pieces of deliverables and own few of these pieces
Day at work
- Pioneer proof of concepts of new technologies keeping in view product road-map and business priorities
- Self-study and share his / her learning within the team and across teams
- Provide required help to other team-members
- Pioneer in various team events and work towards objectives of these events
- Make meaningful suggestions to make ceremonies more effective
About You
- You have several years of experience with Software Development
- You have worked successfully with product teams in the past and ideally have some experience with mentoring junior developers
- You like working in a collaborative environment where there is collective ownership of the code
- You work in a Continuous Integration and always strive for Continuous Delivery
- You like to share and enable others to increase your whole team's performance

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