Lead, Software Engineer
Digital Engineering, AI Solution, hands-on coding and manage team of AI Engineers.
What is this job all about?
AI has transformed software development forever. Clients no longer want manpower and tickets; they want results with speed. It is all about Anti-Services where anything that is repeated can be automated and made into a platform. You will lead a team of AI Engineers and productize services with AI accelerators, design-to-code workflows, and a platform mindset.
Experience: 6-8 years
Location: Bengaluru
Position: Permanent Role with a well-defined career trajectory.
Skills
Technical
- Must have - Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node/NestJS, Headless CMS, and modern SDLC practices, Experience shipping production apps end-to-end with caching, migrations, blue/green deployments, observability, and CI/CD and Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Copilot) and ability to design/evaluate simple tool-calling/RAG flows with metrics.
- Good to have – Experience in Flutter/React Native, Plugin development, or multi-tenant architectures, Security exposure (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, threat modelling) and Knowledge of micro-frontend migrations, Drupal/WordPress headless setups.
Others
- Strong communication skills with design, PM, and client teams.
- Track record in mentoring developers and conducting PR reviews.
- Ability to balance 60% hands-on engineering with 40% leadership and orchestration.
Your job consists of
Leadership: Guide and mentor team, drive growth plans, code quality, incident postmortems, and reuse adoption.
Strategic Thinking: Shape and contribute to the overarching software architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability while aligning development initiatives with business objectives and client needs.
Industry Expertise: Shape technical discovery, estimates, SoW assumptions, and architectural blueprints. Ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability while aligning delivery with client objectives.
Creative Acumen: Convert repeatable delivery patterns into accelerators (CLI tools, CI/CD templates, scaffolds). Promote a culture of innovation while balancing enterprise reliability.
Analytical Skills: Evaluate requirements, design solutions, and measure outcomes via dashboards, SLO adherence, budgets, and FinOps guardrails.
Collaboration: Orchestrate portfolio delivery with release trains, Jira workflows, and RAID tracking. Partner closely with Sales and Pre-sales on solutioning.
Relationship Building: Serve as the main engineering point of contact for clients across multiple programs, ensuring trust and transparency in delivery health.
Adaptability: Be flexible to do hands-on coding, process orchestration, and client-facing leadership depending on delivery phase. Adapt quickly to evolving AI, mobile, and web contexts.
Result-Oriented: Drive measurable outcomes — multi-account velocity uplift, reuse ≥30%, MTTR reduction, and error budget adherence.
Problem-Solving: Own incidents from crisp communication to resolution. Enforce postmortem actions, CI/CD quality gates, and risk mitigation.
Qualification
Your skill and attitude is mandatory. Whether you’ve vibe coded, trekked Kumara Parvatha or driven Uber at 2 AM, we only care about what you can deliver.
Be the chosen one
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