Job Description

- Sr Backend Lead - Java - AirFi.docx
- Sr Backend Lead - JAVA - AirFi India
Who are we:
AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and
Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in
The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile
InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise
customers.
AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and
other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of
passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!
About the Job Opportunity:
AirFi is seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Lead where you\'ll lead
high-performing engineering teams to design and scale robust, secure, and efcient
cloud-based solutions using Java/Springboot, AWS, and Heroku. This role involves
driving technical excellence, integrating diverse technologies, and making
data-driven architectural decisions.
As this is a remote job, we would also expect the candidate to have a reliable
high-speed internet connection, a quiet workspace and be able to work in the
timezone overlapping with the teams in the company.
Your key responsibilities:
Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly
reliable, secure, and performant platforms/products and frameworks.
Lead and manage technical teams efciently, ensuring effective collaboration,
productivity, and timely delivery of projects
Own the technical design, realization, and DevOps for a complex microservices
ecosystem for large-scale ecommerce.
Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence,
execution, and a build-for-scale mindset.
Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders
to drive optimized platform/product delivery.
Lead complex technical and strategic discussions involving multiple
stakeholders, including engineering, architecture, product, and customer teams.
Drive development and design solutions involving the integration of varied
technologies and products to meet business objectives.
Bring a strong industry perspective to help shape and evolve the internal
developer experience to be competitive with leading technology organizations.
Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements
within your teams.
Utilize technology from global solutions within the Walmart ecosystem to build
scalable and innovative solutions.
Exhibit a high sense of urgency to solve problems and execute solutions with
extreme ownership.
Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment
Must-Have Technical Skills:
5 + years of experience in Java, with strong expertise in Spring Boot.
Experience with Javascript and Node JS
Prociency in AWS and Heroku, with a deep understanding of cloud architecture
patterns.
Experience with microservices, cloud architecture, and event-driven design
patterns.
Make architectural decisions based on analytical data patterns.
Knowledge of message queuing technologies like MSMQ, RabbitMQ, SNS, SQS,
etc.
Experience with databases such as CouchDB, MongoDB, Postgres, and MySQL.
Prociency in integrating systems using REST APIs and sockets.
Experience with Git, DevOps practices, and performance optimization.
Experience with developing high quality Mobile Applications.
Prociency in Linux and shell scripting.
Strong skills in security and performance optimization.
You Get Bonus Points For:
Afnity with airlines, the most exciting industry in the world (travel may be
required at some point)
Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must
be independent in managing your own components or features
You must possess an afnity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive
and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
You care deeply about writing quality/testable/modular code and have a passion
to suck every bit of performance of the code
What You Can Expect from Us:
We try to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also
allow you to make a signicant impact on the products that we create and the
business we are in. We boast of a professional and fun work environment with a at
hierarchy of super supportive people to work with.
We always welcome new ideas! Theres no such thing as a bad idea at AirFi, so all you
have to do is shout it aloud and well hear you! We support initiatives or multiple roles
taken out of individual interest giving way for global team collaborations and a highly
dynamic work environment.
AirFi is a true remote rst company - You are free to work from Anywhere in the
world. Your work productivity matters - not your location or work timings! Hence, it's
not uncommon to see our CodeGurus coding from mountaintops one month and a
beachside shack the next.
Some Of Our Cherished Benets For You:
Remote working and exible work timings
Liberal policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping
our work culture non toxic
A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves.
Skill Enhancement sponsorships
Regular team engagement activities including the quarterly (destination/off site)
meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
Opportunities to travel to our customer locations across the globe or our HQ
Tax Saving Meal cards
Random little birdies delivering AirFi Goodies to your doorstep
Career longevity perks and so on!
AirFi is committed to having a non toxic culture with special focus on work life
balance, exible work timings, regular work-cations (these may or may not include
some beer-fuelled dance-offs!) and milestone celebrations are only some of the
things that make AirFi an interesting place to work!
In short, were right in the middle of making Aviation tech history and we invite
you to be part of it!
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