Cloud Tech Lead (offline)

Project Description:
The cloud team is responsible for architecture and development of cloud-based infrastructure that manages personal storage devices of millions of users. Our environment consists of microservices and lambdas written in Java and Go and running in modern AWS stack (ECS and EKS). We use messaging technologies such as SQS and Kafka and we monitor with Prometheus and Grafana. Our emphasis is on high reliability, scalability and security.
Responsibilities:
Lead the team of talented engineers; Be responsible for design and implementation of new features as well as timely bug fixes; Maintain healthy system architecture and help the team shrink its technical debt.

As an ideal candidate for this role, you are a senior hands-on lead engineer with extensive backend and platform engineering experience. You have strong technology leadership experience, are an excellent communicator and have experience working with teams in a cross-functional environment. You know what high-quality code looks like and hold the team to these standards. You believe that observability is important and know how to instrument your code. You understand the importance of unit tests and can teach others how to implement them well.

Mandatory Skills:
• Java (Spring)
• Distributed systems
• Microservices
• NoSQL databases
• AWS, GCP or Azure
• System design and architecture

Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Go
• Javascript
• Kafka, SQS, Kinesis
• DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Kubernetes, ECS

Languages:
English: Upper-intermediate

About Luxoft

Luxoft provides high-end solutions to business worldwide. Our main clients are international corporations such as Boeing, IBM, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Harman, Alstom, Ford, Hotwire and many others. Luxoft`s customers benefit from the right mix of technology skills, industry knowledge, proprietary processes and a choice of engagement models.
Today, Luxoft is +12000 strong specialists with the presence on 5 Continents, 16 Countries with 30 Offices and 27 Delivery Centers.

Company website:
http://www.luxoft.com/