Senior / Lead Backend Engineer (Java)

JOB DUTIES:

• Provide thought leadership to business and technology stakeholders on value propositions, best practices and cloud computing strategies.
• Effectively communicate the technical strategy, processes and needs across the organisation.
• Work closely with the Product Owners and Product Managers to understand, stay in-sync and deliver to production to the organisation’s product vision.
• Define overall backend software architecture for our yet to be announced next generation integrated best-of-suite enterprise solutions.
• Work with cross-functional teams to oversee the design, development, and management of high efficiency, secure, scalable, cost optimised, robust and resilient cloud-based enterprise infrastructure solutions from design, development, test, staging and production environments across multiple microservice systems and all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Envision and implement an automated CI/CD pipeline and/or DevOps and change management processes.
• Participate in the project discussion of technical implementation, unit test implementation, codes review, and backend architecture design, implementation and optimization.
• Ensure all software products under supervision are adhering to the highest engineering standards which includes code maintainability, quality, monitoring, operational excellence, and documentation.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure merged code adheres to best practices and standards.
• Act as a supervisor, mentor and role model to the entire Backend Engineering division both local and overseas and support them in their trainings and career growth.
• Stay up-to-date with new technology trends, languages and techniques.
• Source, seek, hire and fill skills and experience gaps among the Backend Engineering team members.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven track record in developing and deploying, maintainable, extensible, secure, high-performance, and high-availability web-based enterprise grade microservices applications using mainstream programming languages (preferably Java) on established cloud platforms.
• Excellent documentation skills in drafting clear and concise requirements and specifications along with in-depth knowledge of product strategy.
• Experience practitioner in agile frameworks such as scrum, lean or extreme programming.
• Strong time management skills, ability to meet tight deadlines and successfully juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, problem-solving, and proficiency in root cause analysis on a large and distributed codebase.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to anticipate outcomes of a solution.
• Strong knowledge in software engineering, technology trends, technology constraints and software development lifecycle.
• Maintain confidentiality of information processed or prepared.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong sense of responsibility, initiative, and commitment.
• Self-driven and perform duties and responsibilities independently with minimum supervision.
• With ‘Can’ attitude whenever you face difficulty.
• Willing to roll-up one’s sleeves and provide hands-on help to the team.
• Ability to lead, convince and inspire team members in a fast-paced environment.      
• Willingness to travel to meet and work with offshore team members.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Mandarin is highly desirable to liaise with Chinese speaking clients and counterparts to understand their technical requirements.