Lead Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain backend services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and seamless integration for all business operations.
Understand business processes and customer value propositions and devise optimal technical solutions.
Plan team priorities, design, and feature estimates.
Own technical and integration design, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
Stay abreast of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering best practices, and industry trends.
Ensure code quality by establishing and promoting review cycles, coding best practices, and quality controls.
Establish engineering best practices with a focus on application security, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Ensure team cadence with project management processes and tools.
Take ownership of deployment, rollout, maintenance, system health monitoring, and support.
Requirements:
Proficiency in Java and prior experience with Spring Boot are a must.
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Effective communication and collaboration abilities.
Experience in web development and DevOps is a plus.
Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience.
Prior experience in leading and mentoring a highly motivated engineering team.
Strong hands-on experience in building complex business applications.
Exposure to all aspects of the software lifecycle - requirement gathering, solutioning, development, QA, rollout, and adoption.
Experience in the digital commerce and retail domain is preferred.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical skills, and decision-making capabilities.
Clarity of thinking and attention to detail.
Strong understanding of design patterns, distributed systems, microservices architecture, event-driven design, and RESTful APIs.
Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple languages and tech stacks.

Experience
6-9 yrs