Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer - eCommerce

- Lead a full product development lifecycle from ideation, design, development, to roll out and support

- Own the delivery of multiple features of the product end to end while hands-on in development as well

- Advocate best development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, automation (testing and infrastructure) and code modularity, extensibility, quality

- Lead and adopt security- first approach in the product development and ensure automated and manual security checks in place across the delivery pipeline

- Lead by example and mentor other developers in the team both technically and professionally

- Support other Senior Product Engineers and contribute to their growth professionally

- Work with CTO/Head of Engineering, other tech leads and the team to ensure shared technology vision and develop state of the art design and architecture for any product development

- Work with other functions such as testing, analysis, infra management, support to ensure faster delivery of products

- Ensure timely and accurate communication with broader team in order to share understanding of product functionality, features, and technology vision

- Look out for technology trends across the industry and apply relevant developments to the products

- Work with the decentralised application business owners to ensure their vision is realised through efficient technology and delivery timelines

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a role title

- Develop personally and professional outside of the confinement of a traditional career path by focusing on what you- re passionate about rather than a predetermined one-size-fits-all plan

Qualifications:

- 7+ Years- of experience, managing teams of 5+ people

- Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of Object Oriented Design principles

- Must have ability to learn/iterate quickly in a rapidly changing technical stack with nascent codebase and developer tools

- Must possess a passion for delivery-focused development, and overcoming challenges through teamwork and self-motivation

- Ability to work in a variety of client settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

- Ability to communicate technical vision and direction of the product and make significant impacts to technology and design choices

Experience:

- Architectural design while leading and inspiring software development teams

- Leading development of large, custom-built object-oriented applications

- Continuous integration tools and test automation

- Managing systems in production and understands release process, monitoring, and debugging

- Working and developing in agile environment working with XP/Scrum development practices

Skills and Competencies:

- Proficiency in at least two of the following: Java, NodeJS, Go, JavaScript, Python programming stacks, and passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess

- Knowledge of software practices like refactoring, clean code, domain-driven design, Encapsulation etc

- Hands on experience managing databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis

- Exposure to event driven systems and event streaming engines like Kafka

- Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.

- Solid OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge and enterprise integration