Staff Software Engineer (J2ee & Microservices)

Overview:

• Leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor s Best Places to Work
• Seeking an astute individual that has a strong technical foundation with the additional ability to be hands-on with the broader engineering team as part of the development/deployment cycle, and deep knowledge of industry best practices, with the ability to implement them working with both the platform, and the product teams.

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting and designing (along with counterparts and distinguished Architects) a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Order management and micro-fulfillment
• The team currently comprises of 60+ global associates across US, India (COE) and UK and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team

Our current technical environment:

• Software: Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth
• Application Architecture : Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture : MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others : Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Springboot, Gradle GIT, Ignite

What you ll do:

• Drive architecture and designs to become simpler, more robust, and more efficient.
• Involve in requirement gathering, design discussions to come up with architectural solutions
• Provide technical leadership for multiple Scrum teams
• Should be able to handle customer escalation interactions for technical problems. Should respond to queries from internal and external stakeholders
• Write and review service descriptions including relevant measures of service quality and drives architecture to deliver on these promises through self-healing, reliable services that require minimum manual intervention.
• Provide early visibility and mitigation to technical challenges through the journey.
• Lead technical initiatives globally for complex product problems
• Confidently represents product and portfolio, including vision and functional and technical roadmaps, within the company and, when necessary, to strategic customers

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor s degree (STEM preferred) and minimum 12 to 15 years of experience in Software development; ideally a candidate that has started as a Software Engineer and progressed to Lead Software Engineer and has been an Architect, within the last 3-4 years minimum
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Java
• Demonstrable experience designing, building deploying and maintenance of enterprise cloud solutions (we use Azure) in AWS, Azure and or GCP
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based architecture on Cloud at scale.
• Experience with implementation of Event driven architecture using Kafka, Spark or similar technologies
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availability
• Experience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Good Understanding of secure architectures, secure configuration, identity management.