Lead Software Developer (Backend)

Job DescriptionWe are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Lead Backend Developer who can understand both the engineering and business context in a technical ecosystem and manage the software development life cycle, from planning and prioritizing to testing and release. If you have hands-on experience developing large scale web applications in Java with spring, hibernate frameworks and are ready to lead a team of developers, we'd like to meet you.Requirements

5+ years of software development experience including 4+ years of deep, hands on experience in building highly scalable web-based backend applications using Java and Spring ecosystem

BE/BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience

Great problem-solving skills with solid data structures and algorithms knowledge

Has extensively used the Spring ecosystem – Spring Boot, REST API Development, ORM tools like Hibernate

Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

Profound insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Multi-Threading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)

Experience of coaching and mentoring junior developers with good delegation and time-management skills

Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done

Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices

Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience of Elastic Search

Has designed relational databases; conversant with SQL

Knowledge of Jenkins/ Docker and Devops

Knowledge of Redis or similar technology

Worked with some or all of these AWS services: EC2; lambda; SQS/SNS; Elastic Search, Transcoder

Understanding and experience of building services and applications using principles of service-oriented architecture, preferable using REST or SOAP

Contributed in the creation of end-to-end automation tests (functional or non-functional)

Worked with WebSocket, Push notifications etc

Desired Skills

Experience in ELK stack

Knowledge of Video tools like FFMPEG, Wowza / Node Media Streaming

Understanding of different video formats, streaming, CDN etc

Understanding of Machine Learning Models, Pipelines etc