Lead Software Engineer

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The Partner Solutions & Engineering team is looking for a highly qualified Software Engineer experienced with building large-scale distributed systems. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a focused team and work collaboratively with other groups to make a significant impact on our products.

Description

This role demands the best and brightest; the ideal candidate will be self-motivated, accountable, technically strong, and offers a diverse skillset that aligns with the key qualifications listed above. You love working in a dynamic fast-paced environment, building and maintaining strong working relationships with a variety of partners, including business partners, application owners, project managers, technology, and infrastructure teams to get the work done. You naturally take a deep interest in working closely with business partners to drive the product feature and technology roadmap beyond the first release.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong professional experience of designing and developing large scale distributed cloud applications using advanced Java (Spring, Spring Boot, Webflux/Project Reactor or similar).
• Strong leadership skills, and demonstrated ability to achieve results through people and across an organization.
• Must be able to lead discussions with business partners on understanding business processes, workflows, pain points and review requirements; propose comprehensive and holistic solutions.
• Strong experience in driving end-to-end engineering architecture and design for front-end/app development as well as distributed back-end server.
• Solid foundation in computer science, with proficiencies in data structures, algorithms and software design and hands-on experience with Public Cloud like AWS, GCP, AliCloud.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to build relationships, collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams within your area of responsibility.
• Strong experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases required. Experience with streaming or message queue systems such as Kafka desired.
• A proven track record of leading projects and mentoring engineers.
• Masters/Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with container-based workloads and their orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) desired as well as surrounding DevOps/CI/CD tools and processes (Jenkins, Spinnaker or similar).
• Experience working on complex problems and distributed systems where scalability and performance are extremely important.
• Experience of leading Machine learning projects.
• Experience of working and delivering as a Scrum Team. Prior Scrum Master/Project Management experience will be an advantage.
• Be an advocate and driver for proven engineering practices.