As a Lead Software Developer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architecture, implementing best practices, and driving the technical direction of our backend development efforts.
Responsibilities
- Building highly-scalable and secure payments platform
- Primary owners of one or more components of the platform and will drive innovation in your area of ownership
- Working with various product teams gathering requirements and adding capabilities
- Working with some of the smartest people in the industry and will have ample opportunity to learn and grow
- Using cutting-edge cryptography to secure payments beyond industry standards.
- Deriving actionable insights by mining TBs of data.
- Building a low-level infrastructure that aims to push the boundaries of network performance.
- Participating actively in recruitment and nurturing of engineers as awesome as you
Skills - Review and influence new evolving design, architecture, standards and methods with stability, maintainability, and scale in mind
- Identify patterns and provide solutions to class of problems
- Be able to multitask, prioritize and handle dependencies with minimal oversight
- Worked on one or more large scale java applications
- Good understanding of nuances of distributed systems, scalability, and availability
- Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions
- Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
- In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation and GC
- Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc.
- Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
- Great ability to mentor and train other team members
Experience and Qualifications - Strong computer science background with an engineering degree in computer science. with 7+ years of experience in software development and delivery.
- Experience in working on Java, Spring, REST, SQL (PostgreSQL or MYSQL) Messaging systems, ELK stack, microservices is required.
- Great design and problem solving skills with a strong basis for architecting performance, scalability, security and reliability.
- Deep understanding of OOAD, efficient data structures and algorithms.
- Knowledge of Cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack.
