Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for a passionate Software Development Engineer- III for one of our clients. Responsibilities include gathering requirement analysis, defining system functionality, designing scalable and reliable systems, managing a team of SDEs, and writing code in various languages like Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc. Ultimately, the role of the Software Engineer is to build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.

Role & Responsibilities:
• Perform detailed feature requirements analysis along with a team of Senior Developers, define system functionality, work on system design and document the same
• Design/Develop/Improve Cogno AI’s backend infrastructure and stack and build fault-tolerant, scalable and real-time distributed system
• Own the design, development and deployment of code to improve product and platform functionality
• Taking initiative and giving ideas for improving the processes in the technology team would lead to better performance of the team and result in robust solutions
• Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code
• Support team with timely analysis and debugging of operational issues
• Emphasis on automation and scripting
• Cross-functional communication to deliver projects
• Mentor junior team members technically and managed a team of software engineers
• Taking interviews and making tests for hiring people in the technology team

Eligibility

The following are the important eligibility requirements for this Job:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 4 years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably in a product-based company.
• Experience working with major cloud solutions AWS (preferred), Azure, GCP.
• Familiarity with 3-Tier, microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with the design & development of RESTful services
• Experience with developing Linux-based applications, networking and scripting.
• Experience with different data stores, data modelling and scaling them
• Familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo-DB etc.
• 4+ years of experience with web frameworks (preferably Django, Flask etc.)
• Good understanding of data structures, multi-threading and concurrency concepts.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Git is a plus.
• Familiarity with elastic search queries and visualization tools like grafana, kibana
• Strong networking fundamentals: Firewalls, Proxies, DNS, Load Balancing, etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Team player, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• End-to-end ownership of the product. You own what you develop.

Key skills: Django-Python Framework, Kafka, AWS Services (SQS, Lambda), PostgreSQL, Strong competitive skills, Grafana, Kibana