Software Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Recruiter: Seema Shivakumar

Hiring Manager: Sasikanth Cherukupalli

Career Grade: D

About the role

• Driving Innovation: As a specialist, you'll be at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technologies and solutions that can significantly impact the business and industry.
• Ensuring Quality: Your expertise will ensure that the software developed is of the highest quality, reliable, and scalable, which is crucial for maintaining customer satisfaction and trust.
• Optimizing Performance: By leveraging your skills in Full stack programming/technologies and AWS, you'll optimize application performance, ensuring efficient and effective solutions.
• Judicious Influence: Your work will have a judicious impact, helping to align technical solutions with business goals and contributing to the overall success of the organization.
• Technical Leadership: As a specialist, you'll provide technical leadership and guidance, helping to shape the technical direction and standards of the team.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop Full Stack Applications: Design, develop, and maintain web applications and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, Nest.js, and AWS services.
• Architect and Implement Solutions: Create scalable and high-performance architectures, ensuring seamless integration between front-end and back-end systems.
• Code Quality and Best Practices: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, aligning to industry best practices and coding standards.
• Cloud Deployment and Management: Deploy and manage applications on AWS, utilizing ECS/Fargate and Lambda for efficient cloud solutions.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues in both development and production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Mentoring Associate Developers: Provide guidance and support to associate developers, helping them improve their skills, know best practices, and grow in their careers.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Educational Qualification: A bachelor's/master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 6+ years
• Proficiency in Full Stack Development: Strong expertise in React, Next.js, Nest.js, Node.js, TypeScript for building robust and scalable web applications.
• Cloud Computing Skills: Experience with AWS services, particularly ECS/Fargate, Lambda, and CloudFront.
• Architectural Design: Ability to create and implement scalable, high-performance architectures that integrate seamlessly between systems.
• Database Skills: Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB) and SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Strong methodical and problem-solving skills to identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues efficiently.
• Collaboration and Communication: Exceptional skills in working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• AWS Cloud Best Practices: Knowledge of AWS best practices for security, cost optimization, and performance.
• Agile Methodologies: Proficiency in agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• In-depth knowledge of Java programming, object-oriented design, Sprint Boot, Web services etc.,
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, and automated monitoring.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.