Senior Software Engineer

Sophos (www.sophos.com)
Job Description:
Software Development Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code Develop, Code or modify, test, and
debug application programs of varying degree of complexity.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server
side logic Implementation of security and data protection.
• Integration of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications:
• Experience in design and implementation of low-latency, high availability, high
performance applications capable of handling large scale distributed workloads
Expert in Java, with knowledge of Spring boot and Hibernate framework.
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorisation between multiple systems,
servers, and environments.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Understand lean approach with frequent releases and focussed on getting MVPs into
market as early as possible to increase feedback
• Passion for fast-paced and iterative software development
• Fast learner and open to working with new libraries/platforms
Nice to have:
• Experience developing in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud environments
• Solid understanding of Cloud PaaS / IaaS constructs and their APIs Understanding of
security products and secure coding techniques

Responsibilities :

- Building scalable, reliable, high-performing platforms

- Managing project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables

- Participating in the entire lifecycle including analysis, development, fixing and monitoring of issues on the assigned product lines

- Maintaining a high service levels in terms of security, performance, availability, and quality

- Establishing and implementing good development practices to create a top-class, results oriented engineering culture.

Requirements :

- 7 years - 10 years of solid hands on experience in J2EE & related technologies.

- Ability to think in terms of APIs all the time

- Hands on experience in object-oriented designs and principles.

- Hands on experience in data structures, algorithms & design patterns

- Hands on experience in server side, web architecture

- Working knowledge in Spring Framework

- Knowledge in data modeling and hands on experience with at least one RDBMS, MySQL is preferred.

- Knowledge on any of the scripting languages is desirable as you may need to write scripts Javascript, HTML or any front-end frameworks experience is desirable

- Understanding on NoSQL databases.

- You can extrapolate requirements from customers and product management and distinguish between what they need vs. what they want?

- You are always on the lookout for adding configurability and extensibility to your design.

- You cannot agree with not having ability to automatically test software.

- Usability of the solution keeps you awake at nights

Please find below updated JD for Java requirement.

 

-Work with a performance-oriented team driven by ownership and open to experiment.

• -6+ years of Java advanced software development experience, with concurrent (multi-threaded) programming highly desirable.
• -Strong experience on Core Java 8, Java EE, Spring Boot, Maven and Docker including Multi-threading.

.          -Strong problem solving skills, computer science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.

• -Hands on experience with any SQL Database.
• -Ability to learn new technologies like ELK, stack, redis etc.
• -Must have expert level knowledge in Java, Springboot.
• -Must have knowledge or hands on experience in microservices, apache kafka and distributed caching.

.           -Experience in distributed/scalable systems

• -Strong knowledge of design patterns and software engineering best practices.
• -Familiarity with standard development tools and processes: Git, Eclipse, JUnit test, debugging, profiling, etc.

.           -Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps

.           -Strong knowledge and previous experience in end-to-end design, development and subsequent

             support of large-scale data processing systems

.           - Familiarity and confidence working in an agile development environment.

.           - Good Problem solving skills

• - Good oral and written communication skills.
• - Strong debugging skills.

 

● Good understanding of Java Spring Boot and Design Patterns
● Strong knowledge of data structures and designing for performance, scalability and availability.
● Solid understanding of multithreading, MVC, and strong OO skills.
● Good understanding of micro services architecture.
● Good understanding of development tools and processes.
● Good knowledge of cloud environment GCP, AWS
● Code, develop, design and architect the product.
● Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications.
● Deliver across the entire product life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release and support.
● Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release
products

SKILLS
 Java/J2EE with strong SpringBoot
 Very good knowledge of using annotations with SpringBoot
 Very good knowledge of using java functional programming concepts in
SpringBoot
 Should have database knowledge
 Knowledge of Spring Cloud would be a plus.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
 Hands-on experience in Core Java, J2EE, Jasper, Spring, Spring Boot,
Spring Security.
 Hands-on experience in Front-end technologies like JavaScript
 Understanding of HTML5, CSS3, BootStrap, Material UI, and CSS preprocessors including Sass and LESS.
 Understanding of basic prototype design and UI /UX design.
 Exposure to working with datastores - SQL or NoSQL.
 Good understanding of coding standards & best practices.
 Good communication skills

Skill Set Required:

Primary responsibilities:

 

• Architect, Design and Build high performance Search systems for personalization, optimization, and targeting
• Designing systems with Solr, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka
• Algorithmic development with primary focus Machine Learning
• Working with rapid and innovative development methodologies like: Kanban, Continuous Integration and Daily deployments
• Participation in design and code reviews and recommend improvements
• Unit testing with JUnit, Performance testing and tuning
• Coordination with internal and external teams
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Participate in Product roadmap and Prioritization discussions and decisions
• Evangelize the solution with Professional services and Customer Success teams

 

Minimum requirements:

 

• Tech/M.Tech in computer Engineering or related fields or MCA
• At least 10-14 years of software development experience
• Expert in Java, Scala or any other object oriented language
• Proficient in SQL concepts (HiveQL or Postgres a plus)
• Additional language skills for scripting and rapid application development

 

Desired skills and experience:

 

• Working with large data sets in the PBs
• Familiarity with UNIX (systems skills a plus)
• Working experience in Solr, Cassandra, and Kafka
• Working in a distributed environment and has dealt with challenges around scaling and performance
• Working with distributed teams across multiple locations

Proficient in PHP, WebAPI Development Database : MySql, PostgreSQL Node.js Experience of Object Oriented Programming Skills PHP Frameworks: Laravel, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter, Yii2 CMS: Wordpress, Magento 2 E-commerce: Shopify, Prestashop, Woocommerce Version Control: Git, SVN, GitLab Front End: AngularJS, jQuery Frameworks, JavaScript Frameworks, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3 XML, XSLT, JSON 1 years of extensive experience in PHP4 and PHP5.x, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, JQUERY, AJAX, API.Experience with MVC, Framework like Codeigniter and LARAVEL for developing enterprise applications.

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