Lead Backend Engineer - Java/AWS (7-10 yrs)

About the role :

Led the design, development, and optimization of backend systems for Birla Pivot, driving technical innovation, scalability, and reliability to support business growth.

What you'll do :

- Understand business processes and customer value propositions and devise optimal technical solutions.

- Plan team priorities, design, and feature estimates.

- Own technical and integration design, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.

- Stay abreast of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering best practices, and industry trends.

- Ensure code quality by establishing and promoting review cycles, coding best practices, and quality controls.

- Establish engineering best practices with a focus on application security, performance, scalability, and reliability.

- Ensure teams' cadence to project management processes and tools.

- Take ownership of deployment, rollout, maintenance, system health monitoring, and support

What we're looking for :

- Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience.

- Prior experience in leading & mentoring a highly motivated engineering team.

- Proficiency in JAVA, SpringBoot, and Kafka is a must.

- Working knowledge of any cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

- Strong understanding of software development best practices, including design patterns, unit testing, and code reviews.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

- Effective communication and collaboration abilities.