Associate Vice President - Product Engineering - Backend

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and experienced Associate Vice President - Product Engineering - Backend to serve as the lead, and mentor for a growing team of strong developers. You will help the team grow in size and skills, optimizing their code while working on your own. With your technical expertise you will manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables, identify and mitigate the risks. You will design and develop the products that exceed client expectations in terms of value and benefit.

You have deep expertise in building secure, high-performing and scalable systems in Java. You have successfully managed complex and cross discipline Big Data projects in the past. Your design intuition inclines towards usability, elegance and simplicity. You have successfully shipped applications with beautiful front-end and intelligent backend. You have demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and development of cutting-edge products


• Work with product management and engineering team to build highly scalable products


• Keep an eye out for open source projects and technology trends that can be introduced in the products


• Be hands-on, adopt practical approach to software and technology


• Work closely with development team to explain the requirements and constantly monitor the progress


• Suggest improvements in systems & processes and assist technical team with issues needing technical expertise


• Create technical content such as blogs, technical specification documents and system integration requirements documents

Requirement

• Master’s or Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Technology, Info Systems, or related field


• 11 to 14 years of relevant experience in designing and developing scalable and distributed enterprise applications


• Expertise in common frameworks like Spring, JPA, RESTful Web Services, etc. and managing and optimizing data stores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc


• Experience in front-end tools and technologies (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, React) and Geographic Information System (GIS) is preferred


• Experience in building the configuration details for installation, deployment and configuration of cloud automation solutions on AWS


• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design


• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership


• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure