Software Development Engineer 5.5 (Java)

• Lead the technical design, vision, and product roadmap along with the implementation strategy for ALM.
• Lead and influence customer-centricity charter – increase app scalability, security, and stability.
• Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency.
• Craft detailed use cases, design, code, test, and deploy stable, scalable, cost-effective, and simple solutions.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and promote best practices evolution.
• Mentor junior developers to maximize team potential.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through domain and technology presentations, while integrating the latest tech trends into the product.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Over 10 years of experience in developing & scaling customer-focused, highly scalable, high performance, highly available, high concurrency SaaS services, including more than 4 years as a Lead Architect.
• Hands-on experience in setting up projects from scratch, including:
• Technology stack selection
• CI/CD pipelines
• UT/IT plumbing
• Implementing monitoring and observability
• Ensuring security through best practices in architecture and cloud integration
• In-depth expertise in:
• Java
• Web app frameworks (e.g., Spring, Tomcat)
• AWS Cloud
• RDBMS & NoSQL databases
• Experience in building real-time workflows using data pipelines with Big Data technologies like Apache Spark or Flink.
• Excellent problem-solving, programming, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Passionate about solving interesting problems for customers – ready to explore new grounds in technology and user experience.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptable to evolving priorities, and able to lead a team while working autonomously.
• Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.