About this role
- This role is a unique opportunity to contribute to and lead the creation of a state-of-the-art biometrics application built ground up cloud native
- Enforcing best practices, compliance, and security across multiple cloud environments including cost optimization and service tradeoffs
- Collaborate with the product owner and their team to prioritize delivery and clarify requirements in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness.
- Actively participate in backend development using Java, including design, coding, testing, CI/CD, and deployment
- Ready, willing, and able to pick up new technologies.
- Establish best practices and technology standards to support the delivery lifecycle including automation and security coverage.
- Work alongside others on the team to provide architectural and design guidance to fellow engineers
- Establishing coding standards, implement core architectural elements, perform code reviews
- Support their teammates through HR processes such as career growth, performance reviews, and blocker removal.
- Lead daily scrum calls, track team progress, and ensure smooth communication with all stakeholders (US product, engineering, QA, program teams).
- Coordinate effectively between offshore (India) and onsite (US) teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery.
- Design and help their team architect solutions that include cloud computing, infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices-orientated patterns, security, and/or automation.
- Drive delivery predictability, team productivity, sprint discipline, and proactive risk management in an Agile environment.
- Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with knowledge of all phases of SDLC, having spent at-least 3+ years in leading and managing development teams using Agile methodologies
- Native Cloud knowledge and hands on experience from a platform perspective (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS)
- AWS and/or Azure development and deployment experience including microservice architecture on the cloud
- Understanding and working knowledge of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to represent service architecture and configuration
- Passionate about fast feedback cycles, continuous integration, devops, and test automation
- Experience building secure, scalable software systems (UI, API’s, data persistence layers)
- Experience leading a cross functional software team including frontend/backend/QA/Devops engineers
- Strong hands‑on expertise in Java and Java‑based microservices (mandatory)
- Frontend/UI experience (React/Angular/TypeScript/NodeJS) is a plus
- Experience working with and leading remote teams including offshore resources
- Strong expertise in Agile/Scrum ceremonies (daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, retros, backlog grooming)
- Hands‑on coding and technical contribution experience is mandatory
- Ability to collaborate effectively with US‑based teams in a distributed/offshore setup
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a computer science or related field and/or relevant experience
Come join us and make a difference in the world!
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Tech stack
JavaAWSAzureReactAngularTypeScript
About the company
NEC Software Solutions UK Limited
Public Sector Software · Private · Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
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NEC Software Solutions UK Limited provides specialized software and technology services across government, healthcare, housing, and public safety sectors. They build applications that support critical public services, including medical registries and local authority management systems.
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