Lead Engineer , Software - Chennai - Intelsat

Your role in helping us shape the future:

Gogo Commercial Aviation, an Intelsat company has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer role who will help us design and develop our next generation airline services platform. You will be part of the team that is building a globally deployed platform for our customers using some best-in-class software technologies.

Are you up to the challenge

The ideal candidate for this role will have strong Core Java skills and a solid understanding of building and deploying micro-services. You will lead the development resources as a working member of multi-disciplinary, highly-skilled technical teams to architect, design, develop, test, debug and document software, by providing the leadership necessary for the delivery of high quality technical solutions and services that deliver business value.

Can you drive these processes

This role requires strong leadership skills, core Java skills and a solid understanding of building and deploying micro-services. The ideal candidate is adept at delivering complex technology products and tools across a diverse portfolio, breaking down barriers for the teams, and planning both at a higher level and in detail to deliver business value.

• Design and develop globally deployed cloud based micro-services solutions with high availability.

• Works with the solution architect to understand and clarify user requirements. Develops web applications and APIs using Java

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver on application maintenance and support activities for existing technology solutions

• Lead and mentor junior developers and drive them into technical discussions

• Be responsible for assessing current software development practices and principles to identify and implement process improvements

You should definitely have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

• 9 - 12 years of experience in systems implementation with a focus on both custom web/mobile application development commercial software systems implementations; along with experience in multiple technical disciplines required (development, QA, devops, etc)

• 2 5 years of experience in managing software development teams; ability to directly manage and develop direct reports

• Continuously look for new technologies and approaches for the team - help us keep ahead.

• A commitment to excellence, best practices, and the continuous improvement of our products, code base, processes, and tools.

• 5+ years of in-depth development experience with Java.

• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems.

• Experience in CI/CD and AWS deployments (EC2, SQS, SNS, Lambda, S3, Aurora, DynamoDB)

• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycles; expert knowledge in Agile and Lean methods. Proponent of DevOps, TDD, Agile/XP practices, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience in working as Scrum master, should be flexible and adaptive team player. Professional certification in Agile Software Development is preferred (i.e. Certified Scrum Master)

• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize work, coordinate with onsite stakeholders and well organized.

• Work with micro-services teams on RESTful API designs - assist with future scripted API s and websocket investigations.

• Solid experience with SQL/NoSQL and cloud based technologies.

• Experience in unit testing tools like Junit, Mockito Powermock.

It would be nice if you had:

• Core web fundamentals: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS preprocessors like Sass or LESS.

• Experience in React JS, Redux, HTML, modular CSS, JavaScript, libraries, components is a plus .

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