Software Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers through the full software development lifecycle.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and career development support to team members.
• Foster a collaborative, agile, and innovative team culture.
• Collaborate with software manager, aarchitect, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and project scopes.
• Plan sprints, assign tasks, and ensure timely delivery of features and fixes.
• Monitor and report on progress, blockers, and risks.
• Contribute to architecture and system design decisions.
• Ensure software quality through testing, code reviews, and adherence to best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve software performance, security, and scalability.
• Promote best practices in software development, including CI/CD, testing, documentation, and DevOps.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Information System, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship role.
• In-depth knowledge in micro services architecture, authentication, authorization.
• In-depth knowledge of web technologies including HTTP, XML/JSON, web security, authentication/authorization protocols
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Proven track record of in software design and development using Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JPA , REST, JSON.
• Experience in middle ware technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, databases (SQL/NoSQL), REST APIs.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of Keycloak and Oracle IAM is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Mobile Platform are added advantage.