Technical Lead (Core Development Team)

Job highlights

• Masters or Bachelors in engineering from a reputed institute

• Candidate must be an effective risk manager when resolving issues and devising solutions for tactical and strategic fixes to production issues

• Should have experience in all the phases of SDLC

• 7+years professional experience in software development

• Lead the production support team, plan client implementations, own remediation of reported bugs and plan the implementation of small enhancements coming in from various clients.

• Institutionalize a strong reliability engineering culture and facilitate a rapid, iterative, layered development approach for any small enhancements.

• Be hands on with the debugging and problem solving in Ruby/RoR and / or Python.

• Candidate must be an effective risk manager when resolving issues and devising solutions for tactical and strategic fixes to production issues.

• Own root cause analysis of incidents and ensure timely closure of each action item.

• Proactively report on a timely basis all the support issues encountered and track status until remediation is complete.

• Inspire the production support team to build quality, scalable code by pairing with team members periodically.

• Participate in the definition and management of high quality product roadmaps based on business, product & tech strategy.

• Create delivery plans and manage execution in weekly sprints by working very closely with the product manager in the context of planned bug fixes and small enhancements.

• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Masters or Bachelors in engineering from a reputed institute.
• 7+years professional experience in software development.
• Should have experience in all the phases of SDLC.
• Must have experience in leading a team. (At least 2-3 people)
• Be an expert in ruby on rails with experience OR FinTech, Wealth Management, Investment Management domain with experience in any of the programming languages (Java/Python/Ruby). Breadth of experience in multiple technologies, tools, frameworks and processes is a big plus.
• Excellent understanding of core computer science concepts like algorithms, data structure, Software design patterns, OOP etc.
• Must have experience working in a team building multi-tiered, customer facing Internet applications.
• Must be able to work independently with business owners to understand requirements and deliver high quality software with minimal management or coaching.
• Experience working in an agile team with software engineering practices like automated testing, test-driven-development, continuous integration etc is a big plus.
• Excellent logical and analytical reasoning capabilities.
• Excellent oral and written communication.