Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Search

About the role

You will have responsibility for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Search is responsible to drive > 60% basket adds and business. As a senior member of the team you are responsible to ensure we build high quality software with a DevSecOps mentality. We are seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing the next generation Search service. This role involves collaborating with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. We are looking for someone with validated mastery in building and handling secure, scalable, resilient systems.

You will be responsible for

High level expectations from the role: Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and lead the implementation. Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem.

Lead business solutions end-to-end and strive and demand high standards. Elasticsearch experience in a Search/Retail domain is a huge plus. You showcase outstanding behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team. Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team's software

Ensuring that all aspects of the design, development and deployment of applications meets industry practices to build and maintain Search and related services. Raise the bar, strive for and demand high standards. Craft and develop PaaS solutions tailored for private cloud environments. Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Build, Implement and maintain scalable, robust, and secure private services. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and standards. Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to performance, security, and scalability. Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in cloud computing and PaaS. Build and maintain technical documentation for developed services.

You will need

Experience Required:

• Previous experience of product development using agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
• Any previous experience of contributing to globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive the change.

Operational skills relevant:

• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice.
• Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
• Comfortably debug/find complex problems Design Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
• Understand and demonstrate Idempotency in service designs