Lead Software Engineer

The Role:

We’re seeking a skilled Lead Software Engineer to join our India-based engineering team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance software solutions, while ensuring smooth collaboration and overlap with US-based teams. This role combines hands-on engineering responsibilities with opportunities to mentor junior engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and support enterprise-grade systems. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, clean code, and working across modern tech stacks.
Experience: 7+ Years 
On-site role

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
• Be able to articulate implementation at all levels.
• Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.
• Applies technical capabilities within his own discipline to coach and develop junior employees.
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems.
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers.
• Modest advanced code development, code review and day-to-day support duties.
• Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency with Javascript, React, Node.js, Python or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of asynchronous programming.
• Should have good hands on experience with any cloud service.
• Ability to create database schemas that represent and support business needs.
• Familiarity with databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Dynamo, PostgreSQL or MSSQL.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications.
• Good understanding of code versioning tools such as git.
• Experience with container technology such as Docker and container orchestration tools.
• Automate CI / CD workflow for each of the projects that have been onboarded.
• Knowledge of API specifications like GraphQL and REST standards.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Ability to utilize AI Assisted coding tools.

Work Schedule:

• Must be available for ~2 hours of evening work to overlap with US teams (until approximately 11:30 PM IST)

What we offer:

• A culture that values flexibility, work-life balance, and employee well-being - including Work From Home Fridays
• Competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• Work with a collaborative, global team of engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps tooling at scale
• Professional growth through continuous learning, mentorship, and access to new technologies
• Leadership that recognizes contributions and supports career advancement
• The chance to shape DevOps best practices and directly influence company-wide engineering culture
• A people-first environment where your ideas matter and innovation is encouraged