Tech Lead

Job Description

Directi is a $300+ million group of businesses, creating Internet software for millions of global users. You will be part of teams that are responsible for architecting and developing our large-scale, globally distributed, software solutions. These projects involve myriad technologies, diverse platforms, networking concepts, complex algorithms and latest application paradigms such as Ajax, SOA etc and are deployed across hundreds of servers, process terabytes of traffic, and serve millions of users

Compensation Range: 18 to 36 lacs

Responsibilities

• Lead high energy dev teams to create complex internet applications
• Architect large Projects, and Manage their entire lifecycle – design, documentation, coding, testing and deployment
• Identify manpower requirements, and coordinate Recruitment and Training processes

Requirements

Detailed Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, of which 3+ years have been spent leading a team
• Experience in developing products in one or more of Java, C#, PHP, WPF, Ajax/Javascript and preferably an occasional hands-on coder
• Excellent oral/written communication skills in English
• Experience in building large scale globally distributed solutions
• Excellent grasp of Networking concepts, OOPS, Application Design, Web applications, Web 2.0 concepts, RIA and Usability
• Excellent understanding of Data structures, Advanced RDBMS concepts etc
• Excellent at architecting complex high availability solutions involving multi-threading, Async IO, horizontal partitioning, load balancing, globally distributed deployments etc
• Experience in Linux/Unix
• Strong knowledge and working experience with HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Excellent logical reasoning
• Experience in SOAP, XML-RPC or some remoting / Distributed computing / SOA technologies
• Experience in using SCM tools like CVS, SVN etc and using issue-tracking tools like JIRA/Mantis etc
• Process oriented with a penchant for automation

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies (XP, Scrum etc)
• Active blogger
• Contribution to opensource projects
• Conversant in Klingon

Relevant Links

• Our Recruitment Brochure
• Engineering@Directi
• Interview Resources
• Coding Puzzles
• Careers@Directi