Custom Software Engineering Lead

Posted:
4/17/2026, 12:15:41 AM

Location(s):
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ⋅ Tamil Nadu, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Project Role : Custom Software Engineering Lead
Project Role Description : Own the technical direction and architecture of custom software solutions, leading teams through design and delivery. Set development standards and ensure code quality, scalability, and performance aligned to business objectives.
Must have skills : Java Enterprise Edition
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
A Software Engineer is taking part in all relevant steps of designing and creating new systems. This process starts with involvements in the initial idea, planning & design to actual coding, documenting and testing. It continues with the roll-out and the continuous maintenance and optimization as well as the support of the solution built. These tasks are usually undertaken by a product team consisting of Software Engineers plus other professions sharing tasks and responsibilities. Each member carries out a particular step of the development process.


Roles & Responsibilities:
- Writing and implementing effective, secure and maintainable software
- Quality assurance: Testing (Unit, developer, integration, UI, performance) incl. test automation as well as manual testing and smoke tests
- Database: design & optimization
- Maintenance of build pipelines, related infrastructure and middleware
- Software craftsmanship, ensuring inner software quality, Clean code, peer-review, pair-programming
- Identification of potential for synergies, optimizations and re
factorings
- Exchange with stakeholder: feature evaluation, planning, discussion & consulting, gain and share insights into business domain
- Operations & monitoring of delivered artefacts and products
- 3rd level support
- Special responsibilities e.g. release management
- Work closely with other developers, PO, UX/UI designers, business and systems analysts as well as other stakeholders.


Professional & Technical Skills:
- has practical experience in one or more relevant programming language and framework
- has analytical and problem-solving skills
- adheres to clean code principles
- has practiced different software development techniques (e.g. TDD, BDD, ATDD, Pair Programming, etc.)
- has the creativity in finding innovative and effective solutions
- has a strong identification with the respective product and takes responsibility
- is ideally a good communicator and thus able to consult stakeholders as well as other members of the team

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Java Enterprise Edition.
- This position is based at our Chennai office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

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