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Lead Software Engineer

India, Bengaluru · Job Posted July 04, 2026
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Job Responsibility

  • Lead the team in design, build, and evolution of complex applications and platforms across multiple languages, cloud services and platforms
  • Champion software quality by holding a high bar in code reviews, testing practices, and prevention of regressions
  • Act as a technical steward by setting and enforcing code standards, maintaining consistency, and owning critical components or services
  • Lead solution design for domains or systems, evaluating trade-offs in cost, scalability, performance, and requirements, documenting solutions, providing clarity where it is lacking
  • Lead secure by design reviews and ensuring the team's security maturity and overall system safety
  • Actively lead the decomposition of complex problems/requirements into implementable work tasks
  • Lead operations-related discussions with other software engineers and stakeholders to influence product or technical direction based on system behaviours in production
  • Provide structured evaluation of new technologies and contribute to platform patterns and ways of working

Requirements

  • Typically 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles after formal academic studies with senior engineering experience including formally mentoring other developers
  • Expert proficiency as a full-stack web developer in Typescript, React, Node.js, HTML, CSS and front-end build tools and bundlers (npm, Vite, Webpack)
  • Expert proficiency in designing and provisioning AWS cloud native solutions. This must be in cloud native serverless technologies (not just EC2 and containers) using such services as API Gateway, AppSync, Lambda, S3, SNS+SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora etc. There is no hand-off for infrastructure as code (Cloudformation, CDK) to other teams - your product team does it all!
  • Data modelling and database design of both AWS SQL and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL RDS)
  • High proficiency in RESTful and GraphQL API design with examples of design leadership provided
  • High proficiency with Git branching and conflict resolution. Experience managing Github repositories and establishing CI/CD workflows. You will have led creating Github Actions pipeline previously
  • Demonstrated prior responsibility for software architecture, ability to provide commentary in architecture reviews, security practices, performance optimization techniques, operational support
  • Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to handle multiple priorities and construct work of others
  • Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
  • Relevant professional certifications are highly desirable, such AWS Developer and Solution Architect
  • Postgraduate qualifications (e.g. Masters degree) are advantageous, particularly where they support the design and development of software solutions
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