AWS Java Manager

Job Description

As a Software Development Engineering Manager, you possess strong technical skills, developing software applications and services that make life easier for customers.
You will work with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain digital business applications.

As an SDE you will get an opportunity to work with industry leading clients and global teams to solve complex business problems and build your skills on the full stack of application development technologies

• You will work in the spirit of agile & a product engineering mindset - delivering the sprint outcomes, iteratively & incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• You will groom the stories functionally & help define the acceptance criteria (Functional & Non-Functional/NFRs) collaborating actively with stakeholders - locally & in client org., understanding end-to-end customer requirements
• You will actively contribute in technical grooming, brainstorming & whiteboarding design sessions to define & articulate the solution approaches, to identify tasks & estimates, and to document the module/sub-system design with their interfaces & wireframes
• You will have breadth of concepts, tools & technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and understand the need for trade-offs
• You will bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the module / components level
• You will be a polyglot with a PE mindset – Open & Curious, learning & adopting new languages, platforms & toolkits constantly
• You will work with SDE-IIs to understand & practice the overall system architecture, standards & guidelines; While helping them with module & sub-system level details
• You will help evangelize and inculcate the engineering mindset and culture, share knowledge within Peer groups & ASDEs; Provide and receive constructive feedback
• You will have a continuous improvement mindset working on opportunities to shift left; Proactive about reduction of tech. debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using the right productivity tools, understanding client business, using dashboards for monitoring & alerts
• You will be accountable for development, unit testing of features with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards:

• Solve problems at a story level, given the stories and system design
• Design Sub-systems/Modules, Ensure Implementation in-line with design & Integration with all dependent systems/modules; Focused on solving business problems.
• Write Unit & Acceptance Testcases, adopting a Test First approach applying TDD; while using BDD for Functional & Integration testing
• Manage Tech Debts
• Use SCM like GIT; Understand & adopt different branching strategies for code development;
• Use integrated tools like Jira, Confluence etc., along with other collaboration tools across geo locations
• Perform Peer Reviews of sub-system, component level design & implementation, following the established coding standards
• Use Static Analysis & Profiling tools to ensure high Code Quality & Performance
• Practice the DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, Deploy & Support the implementation from Dev., QA environments all the way to Production
• Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), User Manuals to help in the support & training

Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of professional work experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• You use more than one programming language with expertise in at-least one; Ex:
  • Memory Management, GC, Templates/Generics, Closures etc.
  • Multi-Threading, Sync/A-Sync.; Blocking/Non-Blocking execution styles
• You practice Imperative, Functional Programming styles
• You are aware of a Cloud Platform like AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
• You are a problem solver choosing the relevant data structures, algorithms considering the tools for Time & Space Complexity
• You apply SOLID, DRY design principles, design patterns & practice Clean Code
• You are an expert at String Manipulation, Data/Time Arithmetic, Collections & Generics
• You practice & guide on handling failures  Error Management & Exception handling
• You build reliable & high-performance apps leveraging Eventing, Streaming, Concurrency, Multi-Threading & Synchronization libraries and frameworks
• You develop web apps using HTML, CSS, Java-script & relevant frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)
• You design and build microservices from grounds up, considering all NFRs & applying DDD, Bounded Contexts
• You use one or more databases (RDBMS or NoSQL) based on the needs
• You deploy to production, trouble shoot problems & provide live support
• You understand the significance of security aspects & compliance to data, code & application security policies; You write secure code to prevent known vulnerabilities; You understand HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates
• You use one or more Web Application Frameworks
  • Spring or Spring Boot or Micronaut (Java)
  • Flask or Django (Python)
  • Express or Meteor or Koa (Node)
  • Asp.net MVC, WebApi or Nancy (.Net)
• You use one or more messaging platforms (e.g. JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel)
• You use Mocks & Stubs & related frameworks (Moq)
• You use logging frameworks like Log4j, NLog etc.
• You use build tools like MsBuild, Maven, Gradle, Gulp etc.
• You understand and use containers, virtualization
• You use proactive monitoring & alerting, dashboards
• You use Logging/Monitoring solutions (Splunk, ELK, Grafana)

Set Yourself Apart With:

• AWS Certification - Highly preferred
• Experience in one or more of front-end development technologies
• Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework
• A polyglot with an engineering mindset, open to learning new languages, platforms, and toolkits and supporting the same mindset with your team
• Comfortable dealing with abstractions and complexity
• Willingness to travel