Senior Lead Software Engineer

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Role Overview:

We are looking for a strong, hands-on Software Engineer to build and maintain a cloud-based authorisation platform. You will help us build and manage secure, reliable, and cost-effective system. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring operational excellence and business continuity in a dynamic cloud-native environment. We are looking for someone with a strong background in software engineering, Enterprise Application Development, DevOps practices and tools, with a focus on Golang, .NET/C#, AWS cloud, and Kubernetes/EKS. Candidate will play a crucial role in our technology team, contributing to the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of our systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and oversee development of high-performance enterprise applications, bringing strong debugging skills to optimize mission-critical systems.
• Collaborate with software developers across multiple geographies and cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, and deliver systems and software within agreed upon timelines.
• Define and enforce technical standards, design patterns, and best practices for API design, development, and security.
• Build and oversee AWS infrastructure, ensuring high availability and low latency.
• Build and oversee Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, ensuring robust workload orchestration and container lifecycle management.
• Build and oversee the implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment processes.
• Lead cloud security posture management by integrating security controls, automated scanning, and continuous compliance into the DevOps lifecycle.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code maturity through Terraform, enforcing modular, reusable, and version-controlled infrastructure patterns.
• Drive observability efforts using tools like Datadog to monitor infrastructure and application performance.
• Mentor a high-performing, geographically diverse team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

Must Have Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang, .NET/C#.
• Extensive experience building highly-available distributed systems in AWS.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) and cloud architecture best practices.
• Strong hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MS SQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Strong hands-on experience with message brokers and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters (preferably EKS) and containerization using Docker.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e. g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, Ansible, Terraform).
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, or equivalent.
• Track record of designing and executing disaster recovery plans and drills.
• Solid knowledge of Cloud security best practices including IAM policies, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and compliance audits.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of experience in engineering roles, with at least 3 years in technical leadership positions.
• 5 years of experience with Golang, .NET/C#, AWS, and Kubernetes.

Nice to have:

• AWS Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Developer or equivalent.
• Kubernetes Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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