LEAD BACKEND/ FULLSTACK ENGINEER

Lead Backend/Fullstack EngineerRole: Lead Backend/Fullstack EngineerLocation: Hybrid, on site in San Francisco 1-2x a week.Required/Desired Skills:10+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience3+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience, first-hand experience in designing, deploying and managing Java micro services and RESTful APIs, Spring, Spring Boot frameworks, and other related technologiesStrong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platformWorking experience with Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus and Azure loggingImplemented monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App DynamicsHands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence, etcHands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Postgres, Redis databases as high-performance cloud IaaS and PaaS setupAbility to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first placeWorking experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applicationsAnalytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skillsHighly self-motivated, independent, efficient and able to handle several projects; work under pressure with a solid sense for setting prioritiesAbility to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environmentExperience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plusBS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred