Lead Software Engineer

Get to know our Team

MALTA stands for Mobile Apps Libraries Tools & Automation.

The team's main focus is to enable mobile developers to build, test, and deploy best-in-class mobile apps to end users with confidence.

Get to know the Role

Your primary area of responsibility would be to construct internal tools that facilitate aspects of mobile development such as app deployment, stability monitoring, and assistance for mobile engineers in identifying and resolving production issues more rapidly.

The day-to-day activities

• You are a significant and autonomous contributor to your team who is trusted with designing, creating, delivering, and operating your team’s software systems in a consistently high quality manner.
• When working on the systems within your team’s domain, you take into account the appropriate architectural patterns, code design, and infrastructure options, ensuring that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, maintainable, extensible and very well tested.
• Beyond delivery to the production system, engineers will be responsible for post deployment monitoring as well. Senior engineers will also look for opportunities to improve processes within one’s own team.
• In addition to being trusted to operate independently, you also maintain a good partnership with your technical and non-technical stakeholders for projects that you are involved in.
• You take an active role in your projects as a team member involved in product design to rollout, taking ownership of your work and constantly focusing on moving these projects forward.
• Being a lead engineer in the team, you are also expected to continuously help the team grow and improve by mentoring junior members, introducing process improvements, and having a strong influence to the team roadmap to ensure maximal impact.

Requirements

The Must-Haves:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Deep understanding of the JavaScript programming language, familiar with various UI components and UI development, and have deep understanding of the Javascript language
• Writes extensible code for complex projects and picks the right abstractions that adhere to SOLID principles. Understands more complex data structures and algorithms, and recognizes when to use them.
• You can work on both web frontend as well as backend development with Go lang.
• Experience with defect tracking tools and version control
• A good understanding of clean architecture principles
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Experience with web frameworks such as React.js preferred.
• Experience with leading a project with cross-functional team members from end to end.
• Experience with mentoring junior engineers and pushing for engineering excellence.