• Participate in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle – Design, Development, Integration, Testing, Deployment, Maintenance, Customer Support in large and/or complex systems
• Collaborate and work together with Technical Architects, Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers and others in the lifecycle to achieve the desired engineering outcomes
• Provide technical leadership to the engineering team
• Able to work independently, proposing viable technical solutions through research and in-depth understanding of the code base
• Produces or validates the schedule and effort estimate for each task to be performed, commit to the assigned task
• Demonstrates an understanding of the importance of schedule and will endeavor to estimate accurately and deliver according to those estimates
• Demonstrates maturity, skills and adeptness in team collaboration, technical discussions and negotiations
• Drives good engineering practices such as code refactoring, unit testing and code reviews
• Continually improve personal understanding of the new technologies programming languages, frameworks, technical concepts, methods, and measurements that underpin the Engineering disciplines and practices of the company
• Proactively research industry trends and best practices, and apply them where applicable
• Demonstrates the ability to understand, challenge, contribute or construct software specification and is capable of building software in line with the specifications
• Exploits appropriate software development methods, languages, libraries and techniques and applies these to software engineering tasks to realise the most effective outcome
• Ensures that all work is consistent with defined standards where standards exist and to withstand professional scrutiny in any case
• Ensures that high quality and delivery standards are met, and consistently delivers quality code on time and within estimate
• Demonstrates the ability to reflect on and improve personal performance
• Coach and guide junior engineers in terms of best practices, product/process knowledge and tools

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/IT/Computer Science
• 7 to 10 years of experience in the IT/Software industry with hands-on development experience
• Highly skilled in Python programming for large real time, event-driven applications
• Experience in PHP is desired
• Experience in Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
• Experience with secure coding techniques
• Familiarity with VMWare APIs
• Familiarity with CentOS Linux and Bash
• Experience in Unit Testing techniques
• Experience in Git/BitBucket and CVS source control systems
• Familiarity with all stages of a product lifecycle
• DevOps mind set for release and deployment management, build system maintenance
• Experience in traditional Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Experience in big and complex projects with a team size of 10 -20
• Good communication skills
• Adaptable and collaborative and good team player. Able to work with a variety of methodologies and technologies.
• Ability to debug and repair products in the field under time pressure
• Able to support out of hours customer support duties