NexDegree

NexDegree is looking for a Senior Technical Lead  to drive engineering talent and help us build next generation data analytics products for a variety of industry verticals. 

You are a true technology enthusiast and self starter who believes in ownership and advocacy for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at NexDegree. As someone well-versed and current in software development including the latest front & backend technologies, you will use your technical judgment, experience and knowledge to build out execution strategy, architecture, and lead teams from concept to deployment and support. 

Responsibilities

• Manage software engineers designing and developing enterprise-level solutions by providing technical advice, coaching, and direction
• Leverage, synthesize and integrate work from team members. 
• Ensure team members follow disciplined software development methodology, guidelines and standards. 
• Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.
• Drive technical discussions and serve as a technical expert for team members 
• Evaluate stability, compatibility, scalability, interoperability, and performance of products
• Ensure following of documentation best practices within the team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or related disciplines, or 3+ years relevant experience in managing software design, development and testing
• Hand-on technical experience in design/code-reviews/coding
• 3+ years of experience with technical team management
• 3+ years of experience architecting and developing software products
• Customer-first and results-oriented mindset and the ability to make practical decisions when making engineering choices 

Proficiency

• Experience in use of Atlassian JIRA, Confluence,  Git & current tools
• Container based microservice architectures (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience developing software in Linux environments
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks
• Familiarity with API development and integration best practices
• Cloud Hosted tools and services such as AWS, Azure, GCP 
• Frontend technologies such as ReactJS , Angular, Bootstrap
• Python frameworks and hosting – Django, Flask, Gunicorn
• SQL & SQL based RDBMS systems (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

Additional Desired Skills

•  Familiarity with SAP / Oracle / Microsoft ERP Systems
•  Familiarity with data pipeline architectures (e.g. Airflow, Metaflow)
• Familiarity with NoSQL architectures (e.g. MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark)