Tech Lead

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Creating Technical Design of Whole application / part of application including 3rd party tool/library/framework choices.
• Enable team members to follow the design to completion
• Work in collaboration with an SME/HOD to design the system / part of the system
• Identify Risks involved in said architecture
• Ensuring best practices and guidelines are followed in the development process in relevance to the system architecture
• Responsible for performance and security of the system
• Help team members to get accustomed with the project and enable their growth
• Ensure timely delivery of project
• Responsible for sorting out issues that other team members are unable to figure out
• Working with the PM to plan how and when the issues are to be resolved
• Work out issues in development, staging and production environments
• Being the point of contact for technical discussions with the clientele
• Responsible for suggesting solutions for client problems and finalizing the path to completion
• Responsible for being the technical voice of reason
• General development activities including
o Constructing, amending and verifying software components
o Estimating time and effort required for software development
o Planning and designing software components including and not limited to Databases, Data flows, Integration flows etc.
o Applying test-driven development (unit testing) and ensuring appropriate test coverage
o Code review (Juniors)
o Test case verification (validation of developed code against requirements/test cases)
o Resolving operational problems with software and fixing bugs
o Understanding and implementing appropriate version control
o Adhere and contribute to organizational standards for software development and security
o Code commenting, documentation, knowledge retention
• Will focus on Complex problems like Initial Project setup, new library integration, performance bottleneck scoping etc. more rather than CRUD functionalities
• Effective verbal/written communication with the team members for overall project coordination.
• Maintain organization values, vision and mission
• Active participation in organization activities
• Participation in Scrum ceremonies
• Time and Task tracking in relevant project management tool
• Active participation in trainings provided by organization

Skills (Must Have)

• End to end understanding of full stack development including Backend, Frontend, DevOps/Infrastructure, Database, Security, Performance and Scalability
• Backend
o C#
o ASP.NET Core
o NUnit/XUnit/MSTest
• Frontend
o HTML/CSS
o Javascript/Typescript
o SPA Frameworks (Angular/React/VueJS)
• Database
o Relational Database Fundamentals (Normalization, Indexing, Performance etc.)
o SQL Queries
o Postgresql/Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL
o NoSQL Database fundamentals
o Entity Framework/Dapper
• Git
• Experience with project management tools (Jira/Redmine/Azure DevOps/Asana)
• Understanding of CI/CD and Tools
• Understanding of Cloud platforms(AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Understanding of DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Linux fundamentals and Scripting)
• Understanding of Networking fundamentals
• Understanding of Microservices Architecture