Lead Software Engineer - Mumbai - Morningstar

We are looking to add to the established Site Engineering team in Mumbai, India in addition to the Site Engineering team based in Morningstar s Woburn, MA office to provide additional capacity. We are seeking an enthusiastic Technical Lead to become an expert on ByAllAccounts technology and implementation and for training and mentoring junior engineers we will add to the team.

Responsibilities:

• The Lead Software Engineer will serve as both individual technical contributor and technical lead for a new squad of 4-6 software engineers.
• He/she will be responsible for developing and maintaining ByAllAccounts state-of-the-art web crawling engine and its U.S.-patented financial account data extraction, normalization, and enrichment system that handles files and pages in a variety of formats.
• This work involves reverse engineering websites, emulating browsers, using various web technologies and open-source packages, and much more.
• The Tech Lead will drive some changes directly, own the overall task distribution among team members, and ensure complete and quality work is submitted to production.
• Along with architectural and technical appetite, this position also requires training and mentoring junior team members and providing them ongoing day-to-day assistance with their tasks.

Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent discipline
• 8 years of Java development experience in a commercial application or commercial service environment
• Good conceptual knowledge of OOPS and Java
• Must have worked on a web-based project involving JAVA
• Experience with, or demonstrable knowledge of:
• Object-oriented programming
• Regular Expressions/text stream pattern matching
• Web technologies (HTML, JavaScript)
• HTTP protocol
• Multi-threaded applications
• Windows desktop environment
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team.
• Understanding of the Agile development methodology
• A high degree of self-motivation and the ability to adapt quickly to new tasks
• Ability to explain and mentor others with regards to technologies and best practices
• Should have good analytical skills, also should have learning attitude