Sr. Software Developer (Java) (Backend)

Responsibilities : 

• Design, code, and implement highly scalable and reliable web-based applications.
• Coordinate with other team’s architect, engineers, and vendors, as necessary.
• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application
development, and support.
• Identify exciting opportunities for adopting new technologies to solve existing needs and
predicting future challenges
• Perform ongoing refactoring of code, utilizing visualization and other techniques to fast-track
concepts, and delivering continuous improvement
• Work with product managers to prioritize features for ongoing sprints and managing a list of
technical requirements based on industry trends, new technologies, known defects, and issues
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team
• Quickly generate and update proof of concepts for testing and team feedback
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices

Qualifications : 

• Must have java experience
• Experience in computer science, computer engineering
• Web development work experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience in Agile development, application design, software development, and
testing
• Experience with building RESTful APIs
• Expertise in objected oriented analysis and design across a variety of platforms
• Thorough understanding of JSON, Web Service technologies, and data structure fundamentals
• Experience with adaptive and responsive development techniques
• Aptitude for learning and applying programming concepts
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners
• Experience with a broad range of software languages and payments technologies is a plus.

• Analyze highly complex business requirements;
• generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications;
• Acts as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts;
• Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner;
• Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment;
• Individual contributor to build the application for e-commerce platform;
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported areas;
• Working in cloud data stores to include S3, DynamoDB and/or Amazon RDS;
• Perform test automation in a test-driven development environment;
• Implement DevOps concepts, tools and continuous delivery pipelines - Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Bitbucket, Jira, etc;
• Implement instrumentation to gather business-specific metrics around consumer usage patterns;

Experience:4-7years

Package: Exp- 3.5X max

Location: Hyderabad Location (WFO)

Skillset: Java developer with spring boot and microservices

Note: If you get selected you need to come and work in the office Hyderabad location

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly

How would you leverage your technical expertise to create extraordinary impact for our clients?

ThoughtWorks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.

Our developers have been contributing code to major organizations and open source projects for over 25 years. They’ve also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. 

You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.

For a team to thrive, it needs active collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an ambitious tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. They leverage their deep technical knowledge to solve more complex business problems and actively assess their team’s health, code quality and nonfunctional pipelines. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will use continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.
• You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients
• Create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our tech radar to solve client problems
• Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to build and deploy software
• You will lead or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between
• You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills 

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• You have at least 5 years of experience with two or more development languages such as Java, C#, or Ruby
• You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming
• Presence in the external tech community: you proactively share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more
• Comfortability with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban
• You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed 
• You’re willing and able to commit to travel to client sites in order to solve their business problems
• You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
• Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker