Associate Technical Lead, Software Development

KLA is looking for a highly skilled and seasoned Lead Software Developer to build an infrastructure that orchestrates various SW components, manages IPC mechanisms, and handles all critical software functionalities. The ideal candidate shall possess a robust background in software engineering, brings in fresh ideas, enthusiastic to take any new problem, be versatile and passion for spearheading cutting-edge solutions. As a lead developer, you will guide the development team, mentor junior developers and contractors, ensure seamless execution of projects. 

Responsibilities:

• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Ensuring that detailed designs, code, and unit tests, are consistent, robust, future-proof and scalable.
• Design, recommend and implement software solutions using the best suitable technologies from the suite of latest technologies.
• Lead design code reviews with the team and provide actionable feedback that ensures best practices (eg, adherence to requirements, testability, efficiency and style guidelines, etc,)
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define and refine project goals, requirements, and timelines.
• Identify potential technical issues early and develop strategies to address them.
• Keep abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Contribute to existing documentation or knowledge base that expedites resolution time of queries from stakeholders like quality team, customer support, global service team, etc,
• Triage SW issues and track them and debug to identify the root causes of issues, resolve with fast turnaround time - Creating impact on overall system, and quality.

Required Skills:

• Strong object-oriented programming skills in C# or Java
• Extensive knowledge in Inter-Process Communication (IPC) techniques and tools viz: WCF, gRPC, REST, GraphQL protobuf, JSON, etc,
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Diverse Experience in analysis, design, development and unit testing
• Familiarity with observability tools and practices - Opentelemetry, Grafana, Elastic, Kibana, Logstash, etc,
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be able to interact and communicate with all levels of staff and project management in both the business and the technical areas, with the ability to keep discussions at the appropriate level of abstraction.
• Possess excellent analytical, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, and motivational skills, with the ability to move cleanly from theoretical to implementation thinking.
• Developing, maintaining and debugging large, complex Windows Desktop applications. Conversant with multiple Microsoft technologies like .NET

Minimum Qualifications

• BE/BTech/MS/MCA/MTech (CS/Electronics/Physics/ECE degree) with at-least 6y of experience