Lead Software Engineer

Job description

• In this role, you will be playing a key part in building the foundations of an exciting greenfield project. Here are some of the things the role involves: Work on defining event and API schemas in collaboration with parties that provide data to and consume from the platform. Work closely with our product owners in translating ideas and solutions to customer problems into scalable working software.
• Ensure application architecture and data flows are secure by design. Actively participate in architecture guilds reviewing work of other peer teams. Break down high-level requirements, sometimes with ambiguity, into smaller specific items that can efficiently be worked upon by more junior engineers.
• Make technology choices appropriate to the problem being solved; lay the foundations when a technology is introduced, and bring the whole team along the journey. Ensure hygiene practices like clean code, test coverage, performance checks etc. are put in place and gated with automated checks.
• Ensure applications emit standard signals needed for effective monitoring and alerting. Own the running of the application once deployed as much as building it encouraging DevOps mindset and skills within the team. Actively participate in code reviews and encourage using it as a tool for the team members to learn from each other.
• Partner with the engineering manager and drive a culture of continuous delivery where almost every single change goes to production on a continuous basis, and the path from code commit to going live is as automated as it can be. Help create practices within the team that are inclusive of members working across geographies, time zones and cultures. About you Here are some things we expect from you for the role: Be highly proficient with the JVM ecosystem, and have worked with Java or Kotlin for at least 5 years. Be highly proficient working with containerised 12-factor apps, and tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Be highly proficient in building well-decoupled event-driven applications using a technology like Kafka. Have prior experience working with serialisation systems like Avro or Protobuf. Have prior experience working with at least one relational database and at least one NoSQL database. Be familiar with observability concepts: logging, metrics, traces, alerts; and have experience using them in the past to run and maintain production applications.
• Be familiar with methods and concepts in the field of cloud computing and can put them into practice; have experience in at least one of the following: Azure, Google Cloud, AWS. Knowledge of Terraform to create and maintain infrastructure in the cloud is a bonus. Be effective at written and spoken communication.
• Also exhibit the same in writing code that can be well understood by other developers. Having previous experience of working with realtime data at massive scale would be desirable. Having knowledge about the logistics and supply chain domain would be a bonus