Lead Engineer - Backend

Employee | Tech | Professional | Philippines | Taguig | 2024-07-02 | REQ-10072321

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Responsibilities

Delivery

  • Support interactions with customers and development team to gather and define requirements
  • Focus on technology requirements / standards on 1 or more squads. Drive the technical design and evolution of the services owned by the teams. Lead architectural and design discussions
  • Assist the Squad Leads & Teams to ideate, review design, mentor during build, code-review, test, load-test, launch and monitor performance in production
  • Help engineers / squads to design the right system by giving them clear objectives but letting them take care of the system-level architecture
  • Provide regular reports to the Area Lead and other departments on your Squad’s technical achievements, challenges, and recommended solutions.
  • Help remove blockers
  • Lead and consult on developing maintainable/scalable, effective, defect free source code that meets business requirements and team standards, conduct unit test case development, develop highly complex test scripts, conduct impact analysis.
  • Assist in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues
  • Support and facilitate maintenance and upgrades of existing software applications
  • Lead troubleshooting and major incident support, perform blameless postmortems, and drive action that improves reliability for the long term

Practice & Craftsmanship

  • Work with Chapter Leads, Principal Engineers and other Tech Leads to ensure best practices are implemented and followed.
  • Identify and implement appropriate continuous improvement opportunities

Capability Development

  • Mentor team members technically and professionally by offering constructive feedback.
  • Teach less experienced engineers through pair programming and code reviews.
  • Work with Principal Engineers, Squad Leads to assess the skill level of engineers and identify areas of improvement, further learning

Other

  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure end-to-end integration, manage risks and address cross-org dependencies and impediments
  • Work with teams [ Squad / Area ] to plan, prioritize, and complete project assignments
  • Participate in risk assessments and mitigating activities as needed
  • Regularly attend meetings to discuss projects, issues, and ideas
  • Participate in technical audits and ensure the implementation recommendations
  • Support the whole software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Determine department goals and creating implementation plans

Required Skills

  • Proven experience in the ability to mentor and develop teams.
  • Software architecture and design skills to guide the development of solutions that are secure, scalable, and reliable.
  • In depth knowledge of industry standard best practices, development lifecycle processes and methodologies. Experience using agile methodology is a plus.
  • Experienced in the use of metrics and data to drive decision making on architectural / technology drive.
  • Can lead through influence without direct authority.
  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
  • Ability to think independently and contribute to the overall effort without much direction.
  • Ability to work well within a team environment.
  • Ability to work well under pressure.
  • Ability to be a self-starter and work in a fast-paced environment performing work of high difficulty in designing, writing, editing, modifying and debugging code.
  • Able to communicate technical information and details effectively at all levels and understand customer systems
  • Able to diagnose / troubleshoot the most complex issues independently
  • Technical Skillsets should adapt based on the requirement of the project / area

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