Senior Manager - SDE3/SDM

Company Description

• Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers.We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across truly value.

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE-III) to join our team of bright thinkers and doers. Software Development Engineers (SDE-III) are bright, talented, and motivated young minds with strong technical skills, developing software applications and services that make life easier for customers.
The SDE-III is expected to work with multiple agile teams in one or more client accounts to develop, test, and maintain digital business applications.
As an SDE-III you will get an opportunity to work with industry-leading clients and global teams to solve complex business problems and build your skills on the full stack of application development technologies

Your Impact:

• You will work in the spirit of agile & a product engineering mindset - driving the sprint outcomes, iteratively & incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• You will help define & prioritize Epics and Business Roadmap; Govern the Epics functionally & address both Functional & Non-Functional/NFRs collaborating actively with stakeholders - locally & in client org., shaping end-to-end customer requirements
• You will govern the technical grooming, brainstorming & whiteboarding design sessions to define & articulate the solution approaches, to identify tasks & estimates, to design and document E2E system(s) along with interfaces_, contracts_ & wireframes
• You will have breadth of concepts, tools & technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs
• You will bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the E2E system(s) level & challenge the status-quo
• You will be a polyglot with a PE mindset – Open & Curious, learning & adopting new languages, platforms & toolkits constantly
• You will work with HoE’s to define & understand the overall system architecture, standards & guidelines, helping with the details of the E2E system(s) landscape
• You will mentor & guide, actively evangelize and inculcate the engineering mindset and culture, share knowledge within Peer groups, SDE-IIs, while providing and receiving constructive feedback
• You will drive change with a continuous improvement mindset working on opportunities to shift left; Proactive about reduction of tech. debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using the right productivity tools, understanding client business, using dashboards for monitoring & alerts
• You will be accountable for E2E system design, Governance, Evangelization, Advocacy, Quality with an E2E focus, establishing engineering best practices, standards:
• Solve problems at a Roadmap level, driving and influencing the overall business requirements
• Design & Integrate Systems focused on solving business problems; Ensure Implementations are well integrated with all other parts of the enterprise
• Evangelize adoption of Test First approach & TDD; Apply BDD for Functional & Integration testing; Govern Engg. Metrics focus & adoption within all teams in an account.
• Govern elimination of Tech. Debts
• Govern Engineering Maturing Model Adoption, within cross cultural teams spread across Geo’s
• Perform Reviews of E2E system integration & Architectural validation
• Identify & adopt new and relevant tools, practices, platforms taking the technology & solution focus to the next level in the spirit of Continuous Improvement
• Practice & Inculcate the PE & DevOps mindset, with automation as core-focus
• Devise Training strategies; Evaluate and Appraise technical talent within team
• Work with other departments in the organization like Recruitment, Hiring, People Success to Identify, Nurture & Recognize talent

Qualifications

• You have 15+ years of professional work experience building large-scale, large-volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• You Identify & create POCs on new business segments, technologies; building quick and usable solutions
• You use more than one programming language with deep expertise in language features, concepts, and protocols; Ex:
  • Memory Management, GC, Templates/Generics, Closures, etc.
  • Multi-Threading, Sync/A-Sync.; Blocking/Non-Blocking execution styles
  • Lambdas, Streams, Performance Tuning, NIO, HTTP2, Websockets, gRPC, ProtoBuf
• You practice Imperative, Functional Programming styles
• You use Cloud Platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
• You practice distributed, cloud design patterns & architectural styles
• You use API gateways and Management Tools, load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching, reverse proxies
• You use search solutions like Elastic Search, SOLR, Endeca
• You use performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling
• You use distributed tracing apps/platforms, debug and troubleshoot with relevant tools
• You use distributed caching solutions like Redis, Memcache, etc.
• You use side-cars, service mesh along with microservices
• You practice reactive programming, observables (e.g. Spring Reactor/RX Java), Actor models, Akka, Play, etc.
• You use GraphQL, Aggregate services, API Composition, SAGA pattern
• You use K8S, Container Orchestration, Mesos, and Consensus algorithms like PAXOS
• You are a problem solver - choosing the relevant data structures, and algorithms considering the tools for Time & Space Complexity
• You Govern & Steer relevant technology & tools selection, build/buy decisions to solve the business problems
• You are an expert at reviewing & guiding the adoption of SOLID, DRY design principles, design patterns & Clean Code
• You are an expert at String Manipulation, Data/Time Arithmetic, Collections & Generics
• You practice & guide on handling failures à Error Management & Exception handling
• You build reliable, scalable & high-performance apps, and services leveraging relevant architectural styles and patterns like Eventing Sourcing, CEP, Restful APIs, CQRS, etc.
• You develop web apps using HTML, CSS, Javascript & relevant frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)
• You design and build microservices from ground up applying DDD, Bounded Contexts; Considering multiple perspectives and tradeoffs to meet the NFRs
• You define real-time solutions to scale up/scale out/Auto Scale as relevant, with robustness and resilience, applying patterns like circuit breakers & backpropagation
• You understand CAP theorem and work with multiple databases (RDBMS or NoSQL)
• You deploy to production, troubleshoot problems & provide live support
• You practice and ensure coverage of security aspects & compliance to data, code & application security policies; You write secure code to prevent known vulnerabilities; You understand HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates, SAML, Vaults, Key rotation, OAuth, JWT, MFA, DDOS, etc.
• You are an expert & advocate the use of the relevant Web Application Frameworks
  • Spring or Spring Boot or Micronaut (Java)
  • Flask or Django (Python)
  • Express or Meteor or Koa (Node)
  • Asp.net MVC, WebApi or Nancy (.Net)
• You use one or more messaging platforms (e.g. JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel)
• You use Mocks & Stubs & related frameworks (Moq)
• You use logging frameworks like Log4j, NLog, etc.
• You use build tools like MsBuild, Maven, Gradle, Gulp, etc.
• You understand and use containers, virtualization
• You use proactive monitoring & alerting dashboards
• You use Logging/Monitoring solutions (Splunk, ELK, Grafana)
• You practice & ensure infra. as code (cattle over pets) using tools like terraforming, cloud-formation, ansible, etc.
• You set up a CI/CD pipeline infrastructure & stack from grounds-up
• You articulate the pros, con’s of designs; along with tradeoffs influencing key stakeholders
• You use gherkin and cucumber for BDD automation
• You use selenium for UI automation
• You use rules engines like Drools, Easy Rules, etc.

Additional Information

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being