*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

A prestigious company is looking for a Director, Software Engineering (Java 8, Kafka, AWS). This director will lead and manage a team of software developers focused on building/developing event-driven solutions. This role requires experience with Java 8, AWS, Kafka, multi-threading, etc.

• Build and manage a team of skilled software developers
• Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems
• Manage distributed development team, collaborate, and coordinate with vendors
• Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop
• Lead the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
• Recommending architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of the company systems and development processes.

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Java 8+ years of experience
• 8+ years of experience developing software using Object Oriented Design, advance patterns, and multi-threading
• Experience with distributed message brokers, like Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Experience following Git workflows is required.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.