AVP, Enterprise Lead Engineer

WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.

• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.

• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

What you will do:

• Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle
• Design high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability and performance
• Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting complex production issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Define solution design & system architecture for customer facing & backend application
• Conduct technology benchmarking and industry analysis to align the strategic direction
• Conceptualize and verbalize the benefits of technology in solving real business problems
• Develop systems with scalability and flexibility in mind
• Improve software quality using agile practices such as code review, unit testing and integration testing
• Prepare architectural and other technical documents
• Troubleshooting of bugs and enhancing of software
• Manage current operational databases and applications
• Write effective Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and technical documentation
• Collaborate with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Provide support to SIT and UAT, investigate and resolve technical issues reported in projects
• Conduct system and performance management, application vulnerability management and control, software release management
• Plan and commission production system implementation
• Proactively leads, guides, influences for providing feedback and technical guidance to project managers on issues of critical importance for achieving the best solution(s) to meet the business objectives

REQUIREMENTS:

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years and above of development experience on an Agile Team
• Expert in developing REST Services and APIS using NodeJS is a must.
• 6+ years of full time hands on experience in API/microservices programming.
• Strong experience in designing and developing enterprise cloud-based solutions using AWS
• Services including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS , IAM, Cognito, SNS, VPC, EBS, AWS Route 53, Cloud Watch is a must.
• Design & develop Web, APIs & Cloud based solutions is a must
• Proficient in database concepts including schema design, querying, performance tuning and debugging (Both SQL and No-SQL databases)
• Implementing Serverless Software development using Amazon Lambda written in NodeJS is must.
• Event-driven architectures using services such as SNS, SQS, EventBridge.
• Understanding and experience in developing solutions using application layer protocols, such as  TCP/IP, HTTP/S, and Web Sockets.
• Ability to write automated unit test cases using mocking frameworks
• Very good experience with Source Control Management Tools such as git
• Need to have a good object-oriented programming knowledge (OOD, SOLID & Design patterns)
• Modern data architectures (e.g. Micro Service, event driven architectures, stream processing, and integrating real time analytics into customer applications is desirable)
• Have a good eye for NFRs (Scalability, extensibility, reliability etc) while evaluating design.
• Working Knowledge of Agile-Scrum Methodology.
• Experience in executing CI/CD processes in AWS environments is desirable
• Modern platform API design (OPEN API Specification is desirable)
• Should have excellent problem-solving skills with good logical and analytical skills
• Ability to plan, execute projects to deliver in time and with quality.
• Excellent Communication, management reporting and collaboration skills.
• Lead a team of highly motivated and technically strong developers.