Lead - Go/Java
Job Title - Lead - Go/Java + Specialist/Lead + Entity ACS/Accenture Song
Management Level: Level: Specialist
Location: Kochi
Must have skills: Go/Java
Good to have skills: Agile Project Management
Experience: 5-8 years of experience is required
Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture)
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead - Go/Java with 5–8 years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance Java applications. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of object-oriented programming, backend development, and modern software engineering best practices. You will be responsible for writing clean, scalable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Owning the technical direction and ensuring the team delivers high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions while guiding and mentoring team members.
- Designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, and documenting large, complex software applications
- Collaborate on technical implementation, assist other developers and consultants in implementation and development
- Demonstrate capability to effectively assimilate new skills and use of new technologies.
- Takes ownership of complex, ambiguous problems and drives end-to-end solutions.
- Makes architectural and design decisions, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Mentors and supports junior team members through code reviews and guidance.
- Communicates effectively with cross-functional teams and contributes to technical planning.
- Proactively identifies technical risks and proposes improvements across the codebase or processes.
- Exceptional productivity and attention to product quality issues
- Be accountable to deliver the task to the agreed standards
- Adhere to development standards and architectural guidelines set by the Solution Design team
- Develop all technical aspects of eCommerce stores, from commerce to content and all integration with external systems
- Motivated to independently monitor and appraise emerging trends and technologies in software engineering and make recommendations or undertake independent research to validate new ideas
- Act as the key trouble-shooter in complex/escalated incidents
- Provide innovative ideas and solutions in an ever-changing environment with up-to-date knowledge regarding existing technologies.
Professional and Technical Skills:
- Design and implement microservices and APIs (REST/gRPC) in Go with clean, testable architecture.
- Write efficient, concurrent code using goroutines, channels, and the context package; manage timeouts/cancellation.
- Own service quality: unit/integration tests, benchmarks, profiling, and race detection.
- Integrate with PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis caching and messaging Kafka/RabbitMQ.
- Build and ship via Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins); automate deploys and rollbacks.
- Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry; drive SLOs and incident RCA.
- Ensure security basics: TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, input validation, dependency hygiene (Go modules).
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
- Experience with Code management tools.
- Hands-on experience with Caching mechanisms.
Additional Information
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