Key Responsibilities:
1. Technical Leadership:
○ Lead end-to-end design and development of complex, high-performing, and scalable software solutions.
○ Drive technical decisions and establish best practices in software architecture, coding, and deployment.
○ Own design reviews, balancing trade-offs to deliver optimal technical solutions.
2. System Design and Architecture:
○ Architect robust, distributed systems and microservices that can scale globally.
○ Perform advanced system design, factoring in scalability, security, and reliability requirements.
○ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical roadmaps with business objectives.
3. Code Quality and Optimisation:
○ Champion clean, maintainable, and reusable code through design patterns, advanced coding practices, and automated testing.
○ Conduct in-depth code reviews and technical audits to ensure quality and adherence to standards.
○ Optimise critical performance bottlenecks, ensuring systems meet SLA and scale efficiently.
4. Mentorship and Team Development:
○ Mentor SDE I and SDE II engineers, guiding them on design, debugging, and problem-solving.
○ Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
○ Drive knowledge-sharing initiatives, tech talks, and documentation improvements.
5. Ownership and Problem-Solving:
○ Own critical features/modules, proactively identifying and addressing technical debt.
○ Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with deep root cause analysis and solutions to improve system reliability.
○ Lead incident response and post-mortems to drive operational excellence.
6. Agile Delivery:
○ Lead Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
○ Effectively prioritise features, bugs, and technical debt in collaboration with Product Managers and stakeholders.
○ Ensure timely delivery of projects with high-quality code.
7. Continuous Innovation:
○ Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies and tools to drive innovation in development practices.
○ Identify opportunities for automating manual processes and improving engineering efficiency.
○ Contribute to the team’s technical vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Technical Skills:
○ Strong expertise in programming languages/frameworks like Java, Spring Boot, Python, etc.
○ Deep experience in designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
○ Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with deployment experience.
○ Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
○ Expertise in performance optimisation, profiling, and system reliability.
○ Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
○ Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and version control (Git).
