Sr. Development Engineer – Cloud Backend

Job Position: Lead II - Software Engineering

Domain: Information technology (IT)

Location: India - Thiruvananthapuram

Salary: Best in Industry

Job Positions: 1

Experience: 8 - 12 Years

Skills: .Net, Sql Azure, Rest Api, Vue.Js

Notice Period: Immediate – 30 Days

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior .NET Developer with a minimum of 7 years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, including post-live support. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in .NET backend API development, Agile methodologies, and Cloud infrastructure (preferably Azure). You will play a key role in solution design, development, DevOps pipeline enhancement, and mentoring junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure .NET backend APIs.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead and contribute to Agile software delivery processes (Scrum, Kanban).
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and support release cadence targets, using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Provide post-live support, troubleshooting, and issue resolution as part of full lifecycle responsibilities.
• Implement unit and integration testing to ensure code quality and system stability.
• Work closely with DevOps and cloud engineering teams to manage deployments on Azure (Web Apps, Container Apps, Functions, SQL).
• Contribute to front-end components when necessary, leveraging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript UI frameworks.
• Mentor and coach engineers within a co-located or distributed team environment.
• Maintain best practices in code versioning, testing, and documentation.

Mandatory Skills:

• 7+ years of .NET development experience, including API design and development
• Strong experience with Azure Cloud services, including:
• Web/Container Apps
• Azure Functions
• Azure SQL Server
• Solid understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – preferably Terraform
• Strong knowledge of RESTful services and JSON-based APIs
• Experience with unit and integration testing techniques
• Source control using Git
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and cross-browser compatibility

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Knowledge of JavaScript UI frameworks, ideally Vue.js
• Familiarity with JIRA and Agile project tracking tools
• Exposure to Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) concepts
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior developers
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Key skills : Python, Numpy, Panda, SQL, ETL 

Roles and Responsibilities:

- The work will involve the development of workflows triggered by events from other systems

- Design, develop, test, and deliver software solutions in the FX Derivatives group

- Analyse requirements for the solutions they deliver, to ensure that they provide the right solution

- Develop easy to use documentation for the frameworks and tools developed for adaption by other teams

Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python

- Must have unit testing and debugging skills

- Good problem solving and analytical skills

- Python packages such as NumPy, Scikit learn

- Testing and debugging applications.

- Developing back-end components.

Job Responsibilities

✓ Perform the role of Technical Lead on assigned projects to drive solution design (especially backend) and API services development.

✓ Be the thought leader and champion for above mentioned technologies.

✓ Drive technical analysis for new projects including planning and driving proof-of-concepts, if needed.

✓ Drive tasks related to backend development by providing architectural and technical leadership to mid-tier and database developers.

✓ Conduct peer reviews as the lead into Git to confirmed that developed code meets acceptable standards and guidelines.

✓ Work closely with the rest of the leads, mid-tier development, front-end developers, database developers, etc. to ensure end-to-end integrity of the solution being developed.

✓ Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure reuse where applicable to increase productivity and throughput.

✓ Conduct technical interview to staff open positions in the backend team.

✓ Delegate work and assignments to team members

✓ Collaborate with their team to identify and fix technical problems

✓ Analyze users' needs and then finding applications to serve them

✓ Drive assigned tasks related to SOC 2 certification and ensure compliance to defined controls for areas under lead’s purview.

✓ Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges

✓ Prepare Technical design documents which would help the team to understand the technical flow

✓ Active participation in customer calls especially discussions related to Technical/Architectural and provide inputs.

Required Experience: 

✓ Backend Lead around 14 years of experience

✓ Server less Computing Architecture

✓ NodeJS, MySQL, Jenkins, Python, GitLab Technologies

✓ Good knowledge of AWS Cloud

✓ Full cycle AWS implementation experience

✓ Project experience in development and maintenance support for AWS web service and Cloudbased implementations

✓ Experience leading teams of up to 10 + professionals

Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-moving environment 

Educational Qualifications: 

Engineering graduate or B. Tech/MCA with relevant major subjects like Computer Science

• 3+  years of hands-on experience in ERPNext Platform and Frappe Framework, Python, JavaScript and MySQL/MariaDB
• Strong knowledge of configuration and customisation of the ERPNext platform

• 2 + years of software development experience utilizing Java based frameworks and technologies to build enterprise grade product solutions.
• 2+ years of experience designing, developing and documenting RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of concepts/technologies like Spring MVC, Spring boot, J2EE, EJB, application/API security, API governance/gateway platforms like apigee or kong.
• Good understanding of RDMS concepts and development preferably using MS SQL Server.
• Experience using test automation technologies like cucumber, selenium is a big plus.
• Partner with scrum masters to address technical blockers/impediments to progress.
• Prior experience working with agile scrum-based development methodology. Participate in sprint planning and estimate development efforts for features and stories.
• Partner with DevOps to install and configure/tune application containers like embedded Spring boot tomcat and webserver technologies preferably nginx or apache.
• Partner with cloud engineering group to outline the infrastructure provisioning requirements/needs for new product development.
• Design and develop CI/CD tools and process preferably using Jenkins to configure build jobs for APIs and design pipeline to promote artifacts from development all the way to production
• Experience with messaging technologies like kafka is a huge plus
• Work with Test Automation engineering team to integrate test automation scripts as part of the CI/CD process.
• Prior proven experience of utilizing and productionizing container/container orchestration technologies like Docker, kubernetes.
• Participate and Resolve issues related deployments, application performance etc.

• Java
• Springboot
• REST API
• Microservices

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++/C/Python/ROR/C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.