Lead Software Engineer

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

The Purpose of This Role

As a Lead Software engineer you will be applying your strong software engineering practices (implementation and validation) to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve Fidelity customer-facing software solutions. You will also be supporting your team in adopting best practices to ensure we are building the right product and we are building it right. Being technically competent is telling only half of the story.

How Your Work Impacts The Organization

We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are fanatics about our Culture Code that promotes leadership at all levels.

The Value You Deliver

• Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests,
• Collaborate with team members on improving teams test coverage, release velocity and production health
• Contribute to own entire features from concept to deployment working on cross-functional activities
• Use your experience and knowledge to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering and bug prevention strategies, testability and security
• Ensure operability of technical architecture by partnering with the Enterprise Architects, project teams and taking responsibility for the technical design dispensations
• Manage technology obsolescence of the product and aligning to enterprise directives
• Identifying opportunities to bring emerging technologies/solutions to deliver innovative solutions to meet business objectives.

Technical

• Extensive experience in Java, JavaScript, Frameworks like Spring Core/MVC, Angular, Testing frameworks like JUnit/Mockito/Spring Test, Tools like Swagger/Git/Jenkins/uDeploy/Docker etc
• Deep knowledge of AWS offerings and well versed with cloud based solutions design/architecture
• Must have experience in designing Micro services and performance fine tuning of services
• Understands and applies fundamental design principles behind a scalable, low latency, high throughput distributed application
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns and their application
• Champions best practices for various aspects of engineering excellence like CICD, design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, test automation across technology stack
• Hands-on experience with Angular, PostgreSQL, Serverless, SOA and Data integration tools

• Be Collaborative: Work in partnership with the users, Architecture, Team Lead and Engineering teams to design, build and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Be Creative: Promote and foster an environment of innovation to deliver new product solutions to market which help improve scale and efficiency, business growth and investment performance
• Influence Others: In partnership with the delivery and engineering leads in US and India, help advance and support product, delivery and technical practices

• You should have relevant experience working with Agile teams
• You should have the effective influencing and communication skills to lead a high performing technology team. Comfortable working with cross-functional team members and promotes the notion of full stack engineers
• Exposure to emerging technologies like AI/ML and Data Analytics/Visualization will be an advantage

• 5+ years of IT experience

Shift timings: 11am 8pm IST. The working hours will be flexible so that the incumbent can provide adequate overlap with the US based squads and other stakeholders.

Certifications

Category:

Information Technology