Head of Software Engineering

Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Proven experience in leading a talented team in a technology-driven environment.
• Strong background in software development, architecture, and project management.
• Experience in building and scaling complex, real-time platforms.
• Knowledge of supply chain, logistics, or related industries is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

Responsibilities & Context

1) Technical Leadership:

• Provide strategic technical leadership to align the technology vision with the overall business strategy.
• Oversee the development and implementation of innovative software and hardware solutions.

2) Planning and Development:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of our supply chain platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure delivery on time.
• Create (or help create) documents: architecture, design documents, technical guide, etc. as and when necessary.

3) Team Management:

• Build and lead a high-performance technology team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Principal Engineer will work closely with business stakeholders and the technical team to deliver a technology platform that delivers business results.
• Provide guidance and direction to the Java engineering team so that they can achieve their tasks timely, efficiently and with quality.
• Work with rest of the team to identify, formalize, size and break down product backlog items mainly web part.
• Actively participate in requirement clarification (grooming) and planning activities and provide estimates, assess risk and explore and recommend options for work items.
• Make sure the team’s work meets functional and non-functional (performance, security, usability) requirements.

4) Technology Stack:

• The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Hibernate, Jenkins, Microservice Architecture, Shell Scripting, SPRING boot, Spring Security, Tomcat.
• AWS, CI/CD, Java, Linux, Object Oriented Programming, Python.
• Good understanding of DevOps processes and tools.

5) Back-End:

• Mastery of the latest Java language (Java 1.8 or later) and Java related frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate etc.).
• Highly proficient with Web Services (REST, SOAP) and related technologies.
• Experience with Consuming different API’s on the web.
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB or similar database.
• Expert knowledge of JVM, memory management, garbage collection, multi-threading/concurrency concerns and ORM technologies, including Hibernate, and Jell.
• Well-versed in JSON, XML, and similar technologies.
• Solid understanding of networking including HTTP, TCP/IP, and UDP
• Proficiency in building and deploying applications on AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.) with a strong understanding of cloud architecture best practices.

6) Front-End:

• Very good knowledge of Javascript and Javascript-based framework (e.g. JQuery)
• Well-versed with HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap and related technologies.
• Familiarity with one of Angular, ReactJS, KnockoutJS and similar framework is preferred.

7) Highly desirable:

• Experience with real-time queuing systems (Kafka)Experience with NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Couchbase).
• Experience with a different language is strongly preferred (Python, Go, Ruby, Scala etc.)
• Experience with Mobile Networks, Geolocation, Payment systems.
• Experience with containers, container repositories and related technologies

8) Security and Compliance:

• Ensure the security and compliance of the platform with industry standards and regulations