Lead Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and seamless integration for all business operations.
• Understand business processes and customer value propositions and devise optimal technical solutions.
• Plan team priorities, design, and feature estimates.
• Own technical and integration design, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Stay abreast of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering best practices, and industry trends.
• Ensure code quality by establishing and promoting review cycles, coding best practices, and quality controls.
• Establish engineering best practices with a focus on application security, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Ensure team cadence with project management processes and tools.
• Take ownership of deployment, rollout, maintenance, system health monitoring, and support.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in Java and prior experience with Spring Boot are a must.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
• Experience in web development and DevOps is a plus.
• Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience.
• Prior experience in leading and mentoring a highly motivated engineering team.
• Strong hands-on experience in building complex business applications.
• Exposure to all aspects of the software lifecycle - requirement gathering, solutioning, development, QA, rollout, and adoption.
• Experience in the digital commerce and retail domain is preferred.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and decision-making capabilities.
• Clarity of thinking and attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, distributed systems, microservices architecture, event-driven design, and RESTful APIs.
• Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple languages and tech stacks.