Staff Software Engineer

Job Overview:

In this role, you will be responsible for working in one of the product development teams developing innovative web and mobile based enterprise software solutions for Wabtec. Responsibilities include design & development, driving team deliverables, risk mitigation, leadership liaison & status reporting. You will act as a module lead and will be hands on design, development and maintenance of a component, feature and/or feature set. You will be collaborating with other product teams to enable product delivery & leveraging best practices and processes.

Essential Responsibilities:

· Drive day-to-day tasks of a product development team developing web and mobile applications in a fast paced and agile development environment using latest software development technologies and infrastructure.

· Responsible for designing and developing backend components on data, web and mobile platforms

· Should have the organizational skills to aid the business in developing global products cutting across technologies and deployment models.

· Work with product owners and architects to understand product requirements and vision

· Provide engineering support working closely with customer support team to diagnose and resolve customer issues and anomalies.

· Technical ideas through white boarding

· Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code reviews

· Provide leadership to developers & testers in designing and developing software modules and test plans.

· Ability to work on different technologies and work with team to deliver cutting edge solutions.

· Drive PoCs, Brainstorming, benchmarking -required for newer initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:

· Master's/Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics or Electronics and Telecommunication or Computer Science or Instrumentation or equivalent with 9 to 13 years of relevant software industry experience in Java/J2EE, Design Patterns & Microservices.

· Proficient in the following technologies: Core Java, Spring, Spring boot, Docker, Kubernetes & any Database (Relational, NoSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB /Couchbase)

· Demonstrated problem solving ability and results orientation

Desired Characteristics:

· Experience working as part of teams following Agile Scrum methodology

· Willingness to develop as a full-stack developer

· Experienced on developing, deploying and managing – microservices on cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

· One who can scale as Solution Architect and help drive PoCs with Architects.

· Containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes experience is needed.

· Working experience on SQL DB (Postgres, MySQL etc.) and No SQL (Mongo etc.)

· Hands-on experience on Cloud platform – AWS.

· Familiarity with UI technologies, JavaScript toolkits and frameworks is good to have.

· Experience with software version management (SVN, Git/Gitlab)

· Experience with Rally, Confluence &Box

· Experienced in dealing with SCA tools like check Marx, Coverity etc and can fix security vulnerabilities.

· Someone who can advocate security in development lifecycle and take measures to improve that.

· Be a gatekeep to manage the branching strategy for the product on GitLab and work with DevOps to improve the productivity.

· Strong oral and written communication skills.