LEAD BACKEND/ FULLSTACK ENGINEER

Lead Backend/Fullstack Engineer Role: Lead Backend/Fullstack Engineer Location: 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 experience 3+ 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 technologies Strong hands-on experience in designing and deploying cloud-based applications using micro services architecture and best practices preferably on MS Azure cloud platform Working experience with Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Istio service mesh, Feign client for third party calls, service discovery, Prometheus and Azure logging Implemented monitoring and alerts dashboards using Splunk, Nagios and App Dynamics Hands-on experience with queueing and streaming solutions such as Kafka, JMS, Coherence, etc Hands-on experience with MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Postgres, Redis databases as high-performance cloud IaaS and PaaS setup Ability to identify performance bottlenecks and use good coding standards and design patterns to avoid them in the first place Working experience with CI/CD pipelines, building regression-able code using GitHub, Jenkins and other dev ops related tools & applications Analytical approach to problem-solving with an ability to work at an abstract level and gain consensus; excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills Highly self-motivated, independent, efficient and able to handle several projects; work under pressure with a solid sense for setting priorities Ability to work in a fast-paced (startup like) agile development environment Experience working in the retail industry with a large-scale enterprise organization, ecommerce, marketing and self-serviceable applications will be a plus BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS preferred