Associate Principal Engineer

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to augment its product, services and analytics capabilities. The ideal candidate needs to have practical exposure to both frontend and backend design and development technologies, and able to use that knowledge to solve complex problems. The role requires a proactive and self motivated individual, who is willing to take an idea, groom it into a well defined user story, and see through the implementation. 

Responsibilities:

• Strong development experience, preferably on web based applications, however a mix of desktop and web based applications is also acceptable.
• Experience in working with UI/UX designers, full stack engineers, data engineers and cloud engineers in a collaborative but fast paced environment.
• Experience in developing applications in platforms such as .net core, Node.js or Bootstrap, combined with databases and cloud technologies to build highly complex and scalable solutions, that provide the competitive edge to our products and services.
• Hands-on experience in service oriented arachitecture, building scalable services that can be shared between multiple applications. Some exposure to microservices arachitecture, and associated design patterns would be an advantage.
• Exposure and hands on experience on database design using one of the leading database platforms such as MS SQL, Oracle, or MySQL, use of analyzing and debugging tools, stored procedures, functions, triggers and views.
• Ability to understand and build complex search and processing algorithms, for applications dealing with large data and high transaction volumes. 
• Exposure to applications hosted on one of the leading cloud hosting platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud), and having practical ideas towards designing solutions for optimum resource usage.

Qualifications:

• B.Tech./B.E./ M.Tech./BCA/MCA with first class (>60%) throughout in academics, from reputed institutions.
• A minimum industry experience of 12+ years, with significant time spent in the relevant projects.
• Familiarity with at least one or more source control tools like Github, or Subversion (SVN).
• Exposure and practical working experience on Agile methodology.
• The job requires some overlapping with the US based teams, so the candidate should be flexible to work in afternoon shift (1 PM – 10 PM) a couple days in a week. The regular shift would be either 10 AM – 7 PM, or 11 AM – 8 PM.

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to at least one NoSQL database such as Cosmos DB will be considered an advantage.
• Some amount of exposure to Payroll systems and working with service delivery teams would be a plus.
• Strong communication skills.