Lead Engineer - BE

Job Description

Born in 1995, Airtel aims to offer global connectivity and unlock endless opportunities. Our presence is positioned to serve nearly 96% of the nation's population with infrastructure to sustain cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, IoT, IQ, and Airtel Black. At Airtel, we strive to go beyond our duties to create impactful solutions for consumers, while also preserving the ecological balance.

Limitless Impact

We create impact, take early ownership, and experiment with different career paths as part of our cultural fabric. Here's what you will get to experience as an Airtel employee:

You get to make a difference to internal and external customers by taking small and big ideas to success and therefore leaving footprints at the scale of billions. And beyond.

Limitless Ownership

You get to go above and beyond to take responsibility, challenge the norms and take risks to create big things in more ways than one.

Limitless Careers

You have the freedom to imagine, and an open canvas available to you to experiment and implement new ideas to gain depth and breadth of experiences.

So come join us, and #BeLimitless. Because you are.

Job Details

Job Title Back-end Lead Engineer

Designation Lead Engineer

Job Code

Function Engineering

Sub-Function Engineering

Location Airtel Centre

Level/Grade Manager

Position Description

The purpose of the role is to design and develop the back-end systems for our consumers and partner facing applications. The role will be responsible to solve complex business problems. The role will also be responsible to guide and upskill team members for the back-end design.

Organizational Relationship

Reporting To Back-end Engineering Manager

Total number of employees supervised by you DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY

Managerial Individual Contributors

Directly - 2 – 3

Indirectly - -

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Back-end framework development

Ensure understanding of customer needs by collaborating with product managers and business stakeholders.

Lead the design, development, delivery, and support of large-scale and distributed software applications and tools.

Lead the preparation of the required documents such as flowcharts, workflows, etc. to identify the requirements and solutions.

Actively take initiatives and come up with new ideas to invent solutions for customers.

Lead the designing of the entire back-end platform for a product portfolio.

Lead backend architecture implementation in an environment that fosters innovation and new ideas.

Study new technologies and frameworks that suit the needs of products and users.

Lead the usage of software engineering best practices to ensure high standard of quality and maintainability for all deliverables.

Lead the production deployment rapidly, be able to scale and to be monitored easily.

Ensure adherence of company standards for the back-end platform design and conceptualization.

Mentor and guide team members on the tools, concepts, company standards, etc. to ensue smooth implementation.

People Management

Work closely with the team for seamless execution of the tasks.

Knowledge, Certifications and Experience

Education Qualification B. Tech or M. Tech or MCA

Total Experience 5 – 8 years of experience

Certifications required (if any)

Key Interactions

Internal / External Stakeholders

(Internal means – External to the department and internal to the organization; External means – External to the organization)

Internal Business Team

External

Skills and Competencies

Technical Competencies

Java skills

Spring framework & MVC approach

Performance optimization and caching techniques

Databases and Schema design

Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithm

Springboot framework

Database i.e. Mongo Oracle

Micro Service Based Development

Exposure to design

Database skills like RDBMS, NOSQL

Design and development of API

Frameworks for unit testing (JUNIT, CHAI)

Version Control and Build Tools

Leadership and Behavioural Competencies

Customer Obsession

Collaboration and Influence

Ownership Mindset

Learning Agility

Navigating Change

Leaders Building Leaders

Execution Excellence