Lead Product Software Engineer - Java Fullstack - Pune / Chennai

POSITION SUMMARY

This position requires a passionate and technology driven candidate to be responsible to manage product delivery of Wolter’s Kluwer Passport enterprise legal management product. The candidate should be willing to challenge the status quo, drive innovation, and work within cross functional teams. This role requires very strong technical skills in software development and a proven ability to deliver products to the market. Day-to-day activities will require working across multiple work streams, managing performance of individual developers, and ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery. This role assists with the planning and estimating of work, understands requirements of and desired functionality being built, and helps craft the technical solutions that will deliver the desired functionality.

This is a role will report directly to a Manager of Product Software Engineering for Passport and is crucial to the continued growth of the product and business unit within Wolters Kluwer.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Obsessive focus on customer experience and continual delivery of value.
• Effectively lead to instil trust, empower team members, focus on business outcomes, and foster a learning culture.
• Foster DevOps culture to ensure that applications can be built, tested, deployed, and monitored in an efficient and automated manner.
• Manage a team of 5-10+ engineers and responsible for delivery of product on-time with superior quality.
• Maintain and lead awareness of industry best practices and relevant technologies.
• Monitor trends in software engineering and development tools to influence the solutions for Passport.
• Understand capabilities and functionality of the platform and products to design and develop new features, modifications, enhancements to current products and tools.
• Participate in Code reviews, setting and implementing coding standards, hands on troubleshooting whenever required across different teams.
• Partner with cross functional leads and other stakeholders to design and develop modifications and enhancements to Passport.
• Coordinate with Product Management in all areas of development including planning, estimation, risk escalation, mitigation, delivery, and support.
• Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching / mentoring to direct reports.
• Produce high quality software and participate in continuous improvement to achieve higher efficiency.
• Mentor senior software engineers as well as associate software engineers through formal and informal channels.
• Ensure that all operational and employee related escalations are properly managed and resolved.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

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