Staff Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryResponsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area. She/he will work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business. She/he will Lead design discussion in a limited manner.Job Description

10+ years' experience relevant to software development   ,architecture, Design and Development, validation, architecting in industry space.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts

• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding

• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal

• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation

• Seek and provide feedback on design and development

• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment

• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module

• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules

• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.

• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs

• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice

• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure

• Provide guidance to a team of 5 to 7 developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM

• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision

•Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

Education Qualification

10+ years' experience relevant to software development   ,architecture, Design and Development, validation, architecting in industry space.

Experience in Grid or Energy software business (AEMS / ADMS / Energy Markets / SCADA / GIS)

Desired CharacteristicsTechnical Expertise:

• Extensive experience in working with Java and Python

• In-depth knowhow in modern microservice architectures and development, including tools/technologies like Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker,Helm and Kubernetes

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles.

• Experience with front-end technologies such as Javascript,Typescript HTML5, CSS, Angular/ReactJS.

• Experience with Windows and Unix / Linux based programming

• Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.

• Experience designing and building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data

• Experience designing and developing scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.

• Experience using server-side monitoring and observability technologies such as Grafana, Kibana, Kiali and Jaeger.

• Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)

• Experience in API documentation, for example using Swagger with REST API and GraphQL schema documentation

• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Continuous improvement mindset; drives change initiatives and process improvements

Business Acumen:

• Strong problem solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments

• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems

• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks

• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas

• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team

• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

Note

Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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