Lead Developer

Application Lead Developer

Ness is a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. As your tech partner, we help engineer your company's future with cloud and data.

As an Engineering Lead for the application delivery team, you will be responsible for leading a talented team of engineers (DEV&QA). You will demonstrate high technical acumen, solution design capability, and strong hands-on expertise in the development of technical solutions for complex business requirements. You will play leading role in providing the technical guidance to the team, best practices adoption, fostering collaborative & dynamic team built-up ensuring successful development and delivery of high-quality enterprise applications/systems.

Core Responsibilities (Team & Delivery Leadership):

• Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with assignments. This includes gathering and understanding requirements, technical specifications, design, architecture, implementation, unit testing, builds/deployments, and code management.
• Evaluate, assess, plan, and guide technical direction and architecture decisions.

Leading Team:

• Mentor, guide the development team through the process of design, estimation, development, and unit testing.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure coding standards are maintained, lead the best practices adoption, and drive continuous improvement in development processes.
• Lead to inspire a team of engineers, fostering a positive and productive work culture.
• Be a self-starter and an excellent team player.
• Stay abreast with industry trends and technological advancements and apply this knowledge to guide the team in selecting appropriate technologies and methodologies.
• Provide technical guidance, support professional development, and conduct regular performance reviews in conjunction to the delivery managers.

Partnership:

• Interface, collaborate and communicate effectively with business and cross functional/technical partners.
• Active participation and contribution to PI, product & release planning etc.
• Collaborate with onsite and offsite team members effectively.

Core Skills:

• Java J2EE building web applications, spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• Java, JEE & spring technologies/frameworks (Spring Core, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Boot) and tools.
• Experience with related frameworks and technologies (Hibernate, Restful services Spring JDBC, MVC etc.)
• Strong experience with Microservices, Spring Boot / Spring framework, Rest API, JPA.
• 2-10 years of experience in web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript including ES2016+
• Experience of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux and Flux
• Experience with user interface design
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha and Jest
• Experience with browser based debugging and excellent troubleshooting skills
• Knowledge on system architecture (N-Tire, Microservices, Cloud-native).
• Strong knowledge of system design principles for scalable, high-performance, and extensible solutions for enterprise grade distributed and services systems.
• Significant knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Experience with Oracle Web logic, Tomcat to include installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
• Working experience of Spring Boot application configuration, deployment and troubleshooting on server platforms Oracle Web logic/Tomcat/Cloud.
• Experience with API management and Cloud-based platforms and services (AWS, Google).
• Working knowledge of Dev-Ops: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development practices as well as Automation and Unit Testing.
• Strong Analytical Skills.
• Working knowledge on system observability/monitoring and alerting.
• Experience Architecting and developing large scale Enterprise applications.
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development.
• Any experience in building applications for financial industry is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in Engineering role.
• 3+ Years experience as Engineering/Technical lead role.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex enterprise grade software solutions.

Why Ness We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff's professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world's leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world. You'll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression. At Ness, we treat our values of rigor, innovation, and partnership with the highest priority, and they are placed at the very core of our business — to guide us through our daily operations and interactions with our customers. We offer our employees exciting and challenging projects across a diverse range of industries, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a group of forward-thinking, capable partners around the globe. Discover Ness Digital Engineering by visiting our website Do you feel like not checking every single requirement? At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity. Also, we are aware of the studies that have shown that women/people of color/introverts are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. So, if this role sounds good to you, even if you don't meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills. Let's meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.