Technical specialist- Backend Engineer (L3), AS

Overview

Technical Specialist (Backend Engineer, L3, corporate title AS) who designs, develops and delivers significant components of engineering solutions to meet business goals.

What you'll do

• Develop and review source code, including infrastructure and application related configurations, for all software components in accordance with detailed software requirements specifications.
• Lead Level 3 support for technical infrastructure components and source code development.
• Drive continuous improvement on applications in production and non-production environments.
• Debug, fix and provide support to L2 on production incidents.
• Verify developed source code through reviews (4-eyes principle).
• Contribute to quality assurance by writing and conducting unit testing.
• Ensure architectural changes, as defined by Architects, are implemented.
• Contribute to problem and root cause analysis.
• Integrate software components following the integration strategy.
• Verify integrated software components through unit and integrated software testing according to the software test plan, and resolve software test findings.
• Ensure all code changes end up in Change Items (CIs).
• Where applicable, develop routines to deploy CIs to target environments.
• Provide release deployments on non-production management-controlled environments.
• Support creation of software product training materials, user guides and deployment instructions.
• Check consistency of documents with the respective software product release.
• Where applicable, manage maintenance of applications and perform technical change requests scheduled according to Release Management processes.
• Fix software defects/bugs, and measure and analyse code for quality.
• Collaborate with colleagues participating in other stages of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Identify dependencies between software product components, technical components, and applications and interfaces.
• Identify product integration verifications to be performed based on the integration sequence and relevant dependencies.
• Suggest and implement continuous technical improvements on applications (scalability, reliability, availability, performance).
• Assist more junior members of the team and control their work where applicable.

What you'll need

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent), with a minor in Finance, Mathematics or Engineering.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proficient communication skills.
• Fluent in English (written/verbal).
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in matrixed organizations.
• Excellent team player.
• Open minded.
• Keeps pace with technical innovation.
• Understands the relevant business area.
• Ability to share information, transfer knowledge and expertise to team members.
• Ability to design and write code in accordance with provided business requirements.
• Ability to contribute to QA strategy and architecture decisions.
• Knowledge of IT delivery and architecture, including knowledge of data modelling and data analysis.
• Relevant Financial Services experience.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing and alternating priorities with a constant focus on delivery.
• Ability to balance business demands and IT fulfilment in terms of standardization, reducing risk and increasing IT flexibility.
• Very good knowledge of Java, PHP and PureBasic.
• Very good knowledge of core processes and tools such as HP ALM, Jira, Service Now, SDLC and Agile processes.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Nice to have

• ETL and Big Data processing.
• Automation through Python, Bash or Shell scripting.
• Cloud offering (GCP preferred) and cloud services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Corporate title: AS.