Location: Bangalore, India

Main role / Job Objective:

The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, reviewing and maintaining software, and overall system architecture, as well as mentoring associates, providing technical feedback and sharing knowledge.

Main responsibilities and key activities:
• Break down high-level objectives into specific software development tasks and follow through on their execution
• Design overall system architecture, database schema and user interface
• Ownership of key technology and solution delivery for modules/components of the product
• Help with gathering requirements, writing functional specification, and creating and reviewing user stories and technical specifications
• Create feasibility analysis and provide accurate effort estimates and status updates, and produce high quality deliverables in a timely manner
• Ownership to develop plan and deliver components/modules to meet schedule and quality expectation of product owner
• Write code that is easy to understand and fits with existing patterns
• Conduct peer code reviews and perform unit and integration testing
• Implement unit testing, integration testing, deployment approach, and maintain programming documentation which include commenting code and user guides
• Analyze, debug and solve complex technical issues and customer escalations
• Communicate and interact effectively with customers, product management, QA, documentation, training, deployment, support and other departments within Esko
• Mentor junior software engineers on their technical development
• Stay current on software technology, concepts and tools, as well as related and competing products
• Help with creating, implementing, executing and guarding optimized processes, policies and procedures
• Institutionalize industry standard software engineering processes, practices and methodologies
• Aid in recruitment, assimilating necessary technical knowledge and building team to meet organizational goals

Qualifications and professional knowledge:
• Engineering degree in Computer Science
• 6+ years of work experience with at least 3 years in full-stack Web Development
• Must have 3+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, PHP(Laravel framework), mySQL, Node.js, Caching, Performance and Load balancing
• Good to have experience with AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, AppSync and API Gateway
• Must be able to write unit tests where applicable.
• Must be familiar with Web Application Architecture, design patterns like MVC and capable of making design decisions taking into account performance and scalability of the application.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to understand advanced technical documentation
• Strong knowledge of database design and efficient SQL statements
• Proficiency with agile software development tools like JIRA, Pivotal tracker etc
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies, APIs and tools
• Ability to analyse customer requirements and define these as a formal specification for software development
• Result oriented with strong self-management skills