Lead Back End Developer

Role Description :

Senior Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as "keep it simple," test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. An SDE focuses on developing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements

Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.

Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.

Design the solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.

Align to Security / Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.

Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.

Write code.

Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.

Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.

Implement Service Reliability Engineering.

Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

4-13 years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages include

Java, SpringBoot, - Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL, SpringJMS, SpringBatch, SpringMVC.

Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP etc.

Experience in designing, developing and deploying

RESTful microservices.

Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.

Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.

Experience engineering software within an

Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

– S3 Bucket Dynamo DB / Document DB / EC2 / API gateway infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required.

Experience in RedHat Open Shift on AWS platform is an added advantage.

Experience in JMS, Kafka or any MQ / Topic is required.

Working knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI / CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.

Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required. Adhering to secure coding practice is required.

Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other) is required.

Working knowledge of SonarQube, Veracode or BlackDuck scan is required.

Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, JDBC.

Working Knowledge of AWS CDK (typescript is preferred), CloudFormation Templates (CFT), IaC (Infrastructure as code) Debugging Infrastructure issues in CDK and CFT, yaml, Ansible

Working knowledge of NoSQL database, MongoDB, Cassandra management systems is required.

Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.

Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.

Knowledge of CI / CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git / Gitlab, Jira / VersionOne / Agility, Jenkins / Tekton, Gradle, Ansible

AWS / GCP / Azure – hands on cloud experience is mandatory

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.

Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.

Adapt to and incorporate new and emerging technologies

Work under minimal supervision exhibiting strong analytical, problem solving and strong and succinct communication skills.