Tech Lead - POS

Our client is a trailblazing pioneer in the Tobacco Manufacturing Industry. What sets them apart is their unwavering commitment to innovation and progress. They have embarked on a remarkable journey of transformation, with a resolute aim to create a smoke-free future. This ambitious endeavour has completely redefined every aspect of their business, from the production and distribution of their products, to how they interact with their customers and society as a whole.

By embracing this transformation, our client is leading from the front, with their pioneering vision and steadfast determination to create a smoke-free future.

With a workforce of more than 75,000 talented individuals worldwide across 180 countries, they have truly established themselves as a global leader in the industry. 

Responsibilities:

• Establishing a strong engineering culture within the backend chapter, with focus on code quality, scalability, and maintainability
• Lead technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand, implement and measure key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality and availability, and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Foster and build a culture of actively engaging team members in engineering and design discussions
• Set up solid process and practices around code quality, conventions and standards
• Help delivery teams in grooming and prioritisation of Technical Debts
• Leading and Contributing towards organisation wide tech initiatives and transformations
• Mentoring and coach backend software engineers
• Help the organisation in building a top quality team by participating in hiring initiatives

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in building Consumer-facing applications area for a large company
• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s – ideally in IT related field
• Extensive experience in backend engineering, JAVA as a must have with solutions such as CEGID and SAP Hybris being a plus
• Extensive experience in implementing and extending APIs (REST and GraphQL)
• Experience of leading, mentoring and coaching a small team
• Demonstrated ability in building, launching and growing products
• Ability to deliver results in global, matrixed environments comprised of internal and external partners
• Proven track record in fast-paced and ambiguous environments
• Organizational skills to effectively manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
• Good communication skills, should be able to articulate thoughts and ideas to engineering and non engineering audiences.
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud technologies, Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• A keen eye to quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage,
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external collaborators
• Professional scrum certification (Product owner, Scale, Agile Leadership) is a plus