Lead Back End Developer

Role Description:

Senior Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as "keep it simple," test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. An SDE focuses on developing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements
• Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Design the solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
• Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
• Write code.
• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
• Implement Service Reliability Engineering.
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-13 years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages include Java, SpringBoot, - Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL, SpringJMS, SpringBatch, SpringMVC.
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP etc.
• Experience in designing, developing and deploying RESTful microservices.
• Professional experience working with Agile Methodologies is required.
• Experience working with DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment is required.
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud – S3 Bucket Dynamo DB / Document DB / EC2 / API gateway infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider is required.
• Experience in RedHat Open Shift on AWS platform is an added advantage.
• Experience in JMS, Kafka or any MQ/Topic is required.
• Working knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development is a requirement.
• Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required. Adhering to secure coding practice is required.
• Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other) is required.
• Working knowledge of SonarQube, Veracode or BlackDuck scan is required.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, JDBC.
• Working Knowledge of AWS CDK (typescript is preferred), CloudFormation Templates (CFT), IaC (Infrastructure as code) Debugging Infrastructure issues in CDK and CFT, yaml, Ansible
• Working knowledge of NoSQL database, MongoDB, Cassandra management systems is required.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles.
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git/Gitlab, Jira/VersionOne/Agility, Jenkins/Tekton, Gradle, Ansible
• AWS / GCP / Azure – hands on cloud experience is mandatory

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.
• Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.
• Adapt to and incorporate new and emerging technologies
• Work under minimal supervision exhibiting strong analytical, problem solving and strong and succinct communication skills.