Custom Software Engineering Lead

Custom Software Engineering Lead

Project Role : Custom Software Engineering Lead
Project Role Description : Own the technical direction and architecture of custom software solutions, leading teams through design and delivery. Set development standards and ensure code quality, scalability, and performance aligned to business objectives.
Must have skills : Java Enterprise Edition
Good to have skills : JavaScript, Spring Boot
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
A Software Engineer is taking part in all relevant steps of design
ing and creating new systems. This process starts with involve
ments in the initial idea, planning & design to actual coding, doc
umenting and testing. It continues with the roll-out and the contin
uous maintenance and optimization as well as the support of the
solution built.
These tasks are usually undertaken by a product team consisting
of Software Engineers plus other professions sharing tasks and
responsibilities. Each member carries out a particular step of the
development process.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Writing and implementing effective, secure and maintainable
software
- Quality assurance: Testing (Unit, developer, integration, UI, performance) incl. test automation as well as manual testing
and smoke tests
- Database: design & optimization
- Maintenance of build pipelines, related infrastructure and middleware
- Software craftsmanship, ensuring inner software quality, Clean code, peer-review, pair-programming
- Identification of potential for synergies, optimizations and refactorings
- Exchange with stakeholder: feature evaluation, planning, discussion & consulting, gain and share insights into business domain
- Operations & monitoring of delivered artefacts and products
- 3rd level support
- Special responsibilities e.g. release management
- Work closely with other developers, PO, UX/UI designers, business and systems analysts as well as other stakeholders

Professional & Technical Skills:
has practical experience in one or more relevant programming language and framework
- has analytical and problem-solving skills
- adheres to clean code principles
- has practiced different software development techniques
(e.g. TDD, BDD, ATDD, Pair Programming, etc.)
- has the creativity in finding innovative and effective solutions
- has a strong identification with the respective product and takes responsibility
- is ideally a good communicator and thus able to consult stakeholders as well as other members of the team

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 3 years of experience in Java Enterprise Edition.
- This position is based at our Chennai office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.