Lead Engineer - BE

JOB DESCRIPTION
Born in 1995, Airtel aims to offer global connectivity and unlock endless opportunities. Our presence is positioned to serve nearly 96% of the nation's population with infrastructure to sustain cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, IoT, IQ, and Airtel Black. At Airtel, we strive to go beyond our duties to create impactful solutions for consumers, while also preserving the ecological balance.
We create impact, take early ownership, and experiment with different career paths as part of our cultural fabric. Here’s what you will get to experience as an Airtel employee:
Limitless Impact:
You get to make a difference to internal and external customers by taking small and big ideas to success and therefore leaving footprints at the scale of billions. And beyond.
Limitless Ownership:
You get to go above and beyond to take responsibility, challenge the norms and take risks to create big things in more ways than one.
Limitless Careers:
You have the freedom to imagine, and an open canvas available to you to experiment and implement new ideas to gain depth and breadth of experiences.
So come join us, and #BeLimitless. Because you are.
Job Details
Job Title Back-end Lead Engineer
Designation Lead Engineer
Job Code
Function Engineering
Sub-Function Engineering
Location Airtel Centre
Level/Grade Manager
Position Description
The purpose of the role is to design and develop the back-end systems for our consumers and partner facing applications. The role will be responsible to solve complex business problems. The role will also be responsible to guide and upskill team members for the back-end design.
Organizational Relationship
Reporting To Back-end Engineering Manager
Total number of employees supervised by you DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY
Managerial Individual Contributors
Directly - 2 – 3
Indirectly - -
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Back-end framework development
Ensure understanding of customer needs by collaborating with product managers and business stakeholders.
Lead the design, development, delivery, and support of large-scale and distributed software applications and tools.
Lead the preparation of the required documents such as flowcharts, workflows, etc. to identify the requirements and solutions.
Actively take initiatives and come up with new ideas to invent solutions for customers.
Lead the designing of the entire back-end platform for a product portfolio.
Lead backend architecture implementation in an environment that fosters innovation and new ideas.
Study new technologies and frameworks that suit the needs of products and users.
Lead the usage of software engineering best practices to ensure high standard of quality and maintainability for all deliverables.
Lead the production deployment rapidly, be able to scale and to be monitored easily.
Ensure adherence of company standards for the back-end platform design and conceptualization.
Mentor and guide team members on the tools, concepts, company standards, etc. to ensue smooth implementation.
People Management
Work closely with the team for seamless execution of the tasks.
Knowledge, Certifications and Experience
Education Qualification B. Tech or M. Tech or MCA
Total Experience 5 – 8 years of experience
Certifications required (if any)
Key Interactions
Internal / External Stakeholders
(Internal means – External to the department and internal to the organization; External means – External to the organization)
Internal Business Team
External
Skills and Competencies
Technical Competencies
Java skills
Spring framework & MVC approach
Performance optimization and caching techniques
Databases and Schema design
Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithm
Springboot framework
Database i.e. Mongo Oracle
Micro Service Based Development
Exposure to design
Database skills like RDBMS, NOSQL
Design and development of API
Frameworks for unit testing (JUNIT, CHAI)
Version Control and Build Tools
Leadership and Behavioural Competencies
Customer Obsession
Collaboration and Influence
Ownership Mindset
Learning Agility
Navigating Change
Leaders Building Leaders
Execution Excellence

Experience
6 - 9 Years

Employment type
Employee

Work arrangement
No