Technical Lead

About the Company:

At Ascent, we believe that great vision is irrelevant without great people. We love to work with people driven by passion and a thirst to create something futuristic - be it a product or a technological advance; ensuring that our clients stay ahead of the seismic changes brought by the rapid development of cutting-edge fintech. Ascent is an Enterprise Software firm and operates in two niche business segments offering:
• SAAS based automated Data Integrity and Financial Controls: Scalable, end-to-end, enterprise-wide solution enabling automatic matching of several areas including Ledger Balancing, E-wallets & Payments Reconciliation, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) / Digital Payments, Digital Banking, POS/Cards/Nostro/Vostro Reconciliation etc.
• SAAS based automated Business Resilience Platform: A web-based Integrated BCM and Crisis Management Software, it's offerings are compliant with ISO 22301 and full-scale automation towards conducting Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plans, Testing, Emergency Response, Risk Assessment, and Recovery Strategies
• Escrow Management through a Promart solution designed to meet the RERA/Non-RERA regulatory requirements imposed by the banking sector

Role Description

Candidate will be leading one or more of the products (depends upon candidates' experience and skillset) towards development, fine tuning and optimizing software applications. The Technical Lead will also mentor junior developers, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends.

Skills & Abilities :

Java 8 and above, spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JDBC, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, XML and JSON technologies.
• Rest and SOAP Webservices
• Angular, Flutter, React JS, React Native
• Unit testing experience like JUnit, Mocito Junit
• SQL queries and designing database in Oracle 12c/19c, SQL Server, My SQL
• Understanding of Design Patterns such as GOF, Core Java EE design patterns
• Micro services, API gateway
• Low level design of requirements in applications
• New technology evaluation by doing small POC
• Experience in developing Third party API's (Console, Expose)
• Should have good experience in Back End designing / System Architecture.
• Should have good experience in AWS,Azure and CI/CD tools, IAM tools, Document Repository Management Tools, ETL tool, reporting tools, reactive programming A professional qualification in Engineering (preferably Computer Science / Computer Technology) or Masters in Statistics
Preferred: Banking/IT BFSI/Financial domains

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand the domain and customer High value Problem and Identify/ analyse the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification.

• Execute the design, analysis, or evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product / program requirements.

• Effectively engage with global teams for requirements analysis, technical discussions, design presentations and product software integration.

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery. Should be able to execute software development using Agile. Should be a strong Team Leader/ SCRUM Master.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

• Decompose technical tasks and provide accurate estimations. Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.

• Provide timely communications on significant issues/developments to the stakeholders. Responding promptly and professionally to queries.

• Troubleshoot variety of complex software problems. Interface with external customers regarding software issues.

• Performs software tests on developed code to ensure quality of deliverables. Develop code and documentation for a variety of complex software projects, and design and implement bug fixes.

• Conduct code reviews for junior developers and mentor/coach them on areas of improvement.