Principal Backend Engineer

**Job Duties**:

- Provide thought leadership to business and technology stakeholders on value propositions, best practices and cloud computing strategies.
- Effectively communicate the technical strategy, processes and needs across organisation.
- Work closely with the Product Owners and Product Managers to understand, stay in-sync and deliver to production to the organisation’s product vision.
- Define overall backend software architecture for our yet to be announced next generation integrated best-of-suite enterprise solutions.
- Work with cross-functional teams to oversee the design, development, and management of high efficiency, secure, scalable, cost optimised, robust and resilient cloud-based enterprise infrastructure solutions from design, development, test, staging and production environments across multiple microservice systems and all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Envision and implement an automated CI/CD pipeline and/or DevOps and change management processes.
- Participate in the project discussion of technical implementation, implementation of unit test, codes review and backend architecture design, implementation and optimization.
- Ensure the all software products under supervision are adhering to the highest engineering standards which includes code maintainability, quality, monitoring, operational excellence, and documentation.
- Conduct code reviews and ensuring merged code adheres to best practices and standards
- Act as a supervisor, mentor and role model to the entire Backend Engineering division both local and overseas and support them in their trainings and career growth.
- Stay up-to-date with new technology trends, languages and techniques.
- Source, seek, hire and fill skills and experience gaps among the Backend Engineering team members.

**Job Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree of Computing, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
- Solid experience in enterprise cloud platforms, microservices architecture, Kubernetes or other container based deployments, high-availability backend API, Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Relational Databases, NoSQL, Swagger etc.
- Expert knowledge of implementing CI/CD Pipeline, DevOps toolsets, containers and building on top of open-source frameworks.
- Keen knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Excellent documentation skills in drafting clear and concise requirements and specifications along with in-depth knowledge of product strategy.
- Experience practitioner in agile frameworks such as scrum, lean or extreme programming.
- Strong time management skills, ability to meet tight deadlines and successfully juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, problem-solving, and proficiency in root cause analysis on a large and distributed codebase.
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to anticipate outcomes of a solution.
- Strong knowledge in software engineering, technology trends, technology constraints and software development lifecycle.
- Maintain confidentiality of information processed or prepared.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong sense of responsibility, initiative, and commitment.
- Self-driven and perform duties and responsibilities independently with minimum supervision.
- With ‘Can’ attitude whenever you face difficulty.
- Willing to roll-up one’s sleeves and provide a hands-on help to the team.
- Ability to lead, convince and inspire team members in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to travel to meet and work with offshore team members.Fluency in written and spoken English and Mandarin is highly desirable to liaise with Chinese speaking clients and counterparts to understand their technical requirements.