Lead Software Engineer_Backend

Job Summary:

Lead the design and development of scalable backend solutions by translating business requirements into robust software architectures. Serve as the technical authority throughout implementation and maintenance, delivering complex, high-quality code and integrated enterprise systems. Mentor engineers and collaborate across teams to drive innovation and ensure successful deployment of cutting-edge retail enterprise platforms.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship, fostering continuous learning and high-quality code through reviews and best practices.
• Mentor and advise teams with deep expertise in enterprise technologies, standards, and methodologies.
• Lead projects with significant business impact; participate in planning, prioritization, and estimation.

Problem Solving & Architecture

• Resolve complex, multi-application problems to drive portfolio-wide improvements.
• Lead development of scalable, resilient, and maintainable enterprise solutions aligned with architectural standards.
• Deconstruct complex problems into simple, evolving solutions.
• Build awareness and alignment with enterprise frameworks, tools, and engineering platforms.

Collaboration

• Work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver cohesive, enterprise strategy centric solutions.

Performance, Maintenance & Operational Excellence

• Optimize application performance; troubleshoot and maintain stable, reliable codebases.
• Drive disaster recovery, capacity planning, performance, regression and chaos testing, observability, and reliability processes.

• Implement alerts, dashboards, and recovery runbooks to ensure operational excellence.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security best practices, including authentication and authorization protocols, and ensure compliance with data privacy and company policies.
• Educate teams on security principles and engineering standards.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Ensure thorough testing with automated frameworks to maintain high-quality, reliable software.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously explore and recommend new enterprise technologies.
• Simplify solutions, optimize processes, remove bottlenecks, and resolve escalated issues proactively.
• Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.

Years of Experience:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in product development with hands on coding experience
• 6 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions
• 6 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software environment, developing and implementing business systems within an organization, and working with source code control systems
• 6 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development lifecycles through iterative agile development
• 5+ years of API development and Java programming.
• At least 3+ years in architecting and designing enterprise-level solutions.
• Strong knowledge of latest Java features such as error handling, concurrency, performance tuning, and security enhancements.
• Solid understanding of microservices design patterns, CI/CD, and on-prem deployment.
• Experience designing solutions using messaging technologies like Kafka and Hollow.
• Skilled in caching strategies, relational and NoSQL databases.
• Proficient with Git and Jenkins.
• Ability to provide architectural solutions, low-level design, create user stories, and support developers with technical/domain issues.

I. Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)

Required:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred:

• Advanced degrees or relevant certifications.