Job responsibilities
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Be accountable for decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations, and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
- Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
- Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
- Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
- Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members and prioritizes diverse representation
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, 2 + years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Proven ability to deliver high quality features into production system in a rapid paced, iterative development environment.
- Strong proficiency in Java8+, Spring Boot and other Spring modules like Spring MVC, Spring data JPA, JDBC Template.
- Expertise in building RESTful Web Services and microservices using Spring framework.
- Experience with processing large volumes of near real-time data via messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka.
- Experience with persistence technologies such as relational and NoSQL platforms.
- Experience leading teams of technologists
- Ability to guide and coach teams on approach to achieve goals aligned against a set of strategic initiatives
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
- Practical cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working at code level
- Knowledge of Apache Flink to process real-time Kafka messages.
- Hands-on experience with any container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes