Principal Backend Engineer

Principal Backend Engineer

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What you'll do

• Measuring and monitoring the progress of releases during deployment;
• Constructing a release calendar for each project to have a centralized view of all releases (with a consensus from client);
• Making improvements to the methodologies used for configuration management;
• Maintaining documents related to procedures on build and release;
• Identifying any project dependencies that could alter the course of release;
• Attend the Release Management weekly call with the client to discuss on issues, concerns or progress;
• Lead the Scope meeting / finalizing for release with both the client and internal Teams
• Experience in creating release artifacts like Release Notes, Impact Analysis, etc
• Ensure the release artifacts are created, reviewed and shared with client on time;
• Liaise with QA Team to get sign off wrt Quality on release scope;
• Continually work towards making improvements in the Release process / ensuring team document relevant Release procedures and communicate to team;
• Review bugs escalated by client each day against release scope;
• Follow up on impediments within team / Liaising with leads about release;
• Updating tickets with Release dates, Fix and Impact Versions;

Responding to release management enquiries from the client.

Who you are

Key competencies & Skill sets (BE):

• Hands-on experience in Java, Spring, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes and Microservices;
• Good understanding of relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL);
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability;
• Good understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform;
• Good understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment;
• Key competencies & Skill sets (Release Management): Mandatory;
• Hands-on experience in end-end Release Management including;
• Defining the configuration and release strategy, schedule & quality criteria

Enable seamless collaboration between Backbase development teams and customer teams;

• Identification of technical risks and dependencies that can delay the release and manage them;
• Tracking the progress and managing & issues issues, if any;
• Demonstrate the ‘management’ flavor by taking ownership of release cycles and give directions to stakeholders as needed (in addition to just being a coordinator);
• Having a “win-win” attitude to ensure the Backbase and client both achieve success while overcoming hurdles