Senior Software Engineer

As the senior engineer in the tech team, you will oversee and drive technical projects, mostly independently. You will report to the technical lead, who will be responsible for the module(s), and will be his/her dependable and trusted senior developer.

Responsibilities:

• Execute projects independently with minimal supervision using the above skill sets and any additional learning wherever required.
• Understand product requirements and come up with short-term and long-term solutions.
• Prepare and present design suggestions and project plans to the management.
• Write high-level and low-level design documents with impact areas and task breakdown.
• Mentor junior engineers - review their code, unblock them on technical issues.
• Debug and troubleshoot production issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis on system failures and process misses.
• Measure system performance and tune it for perfection.
• Escalate blocker/concern on projects and systems whenever necessary.
• Drive effective integration of your system module with external service providers with appropriate retry logic, rate-limiting and failure tolerance.
• Constructively discuss with stakeholders on bugs v/s features v/s support and unblock business whenever and wherever necessary.
• Help in hiring suitable talent by interviewing for junior engineer roles.
• Follow the on-call roster to be available and help unblock blockers for business operations.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years of experience in software development.
• Problem solver at heart and data-driven decision maker.
• Experience in building systems using Java, mysql, SQS / Kafka, Redis and Spring Boot.
• Experience in designing and writing RESTful web services.
• Experience in angular / reactJS would be a plus.
• Experience in building ERP software products with decent knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in enterprise SaaS would be a plus.
• Experience in delivering atleast two live projects, end-to-end, with clear impact metrics.
• Ability to communicate concerns and blockers effectively in a remote environment.
• Your educational background doesn't matter for us, as long as you can deliver as per the job description below.