Consultant Software Engineer - Python Full stack - IT (Information Technology) - Bangalore, India

Societe Generale SA; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Société Générale in Bengaluru seeks a senior software lead to drive timely feature deliveries and coach teams on best practices. You will help architect robust XAAS services on a Cloud platform, evaluate new tools, and influence technical roadmaps with global/local stakeholders. You will champion developer communities and open-source initiatives.

The role emphasizes scalability, API reliability, and cost optimization while collaborating with architecture and design teams to evolve applications.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience.
• OOP, micro-services, MVC with relational/non-relational DBs.
• REST APIs and cloud-native applications.
• Coaching/mentoring on design and best practices.
• Testing strategies and TDD familiarity.
• CI/CD and DevOps with Git, Jenkins, Sonar.
• Celery for async/background processing.
• PostgreSQL with optimization, design & indexing.
• Mentoring, communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead timely deliveries for the Feature Team.
• Consult and coach teams on development craftsmanship and standards.
• Architect and design robust XAAS services on Cloud platform.
• Evaluate and standardize new tools to improve the Cloud Platform.
• Liaise with stakeholders and influence technical roadmaps.
• Contribute to hosting a thriving developer community.
• Encourage open source contributions and lead by example.
• Drive scalability, reusability, and SLA-based reliability for APIs/services.
• Support hiring and retention efforts.
• Propose modernization, innovation and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Partner with architecture/design teams to improve evolution and usability.

Skills

Python

Microservices

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Mentoring

Tools

Git

Jenkins

SonarQube

Celery

Job description

Responsibilities

Experience: 8 to 12 years

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead timely deliveries for Feature Team.
• Consult and coach feature teams on their development craftsmanship ensuring good design and development standards
• Help architect and design robust XAAS services on Cloud platform
• Evaluate, implement and standardize new tools / solutions to continuously improve the Cloud Platform
• Leverage expertise to driving organization and departments technical vision in development teams
• Liaise with global and local stakeholders and influence technical roadmaps
• Passionately contributing towards hosting a thriving developer community
• Encourage contribution towards inner and open sourcing, leading by example
• Drive scalability, reusability, consistency, and SLA-based reliability for APIs/services.
• Contribute to hiring and retention.
• Propose modernization, innovation, and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Partner with software architecture and design teams to improve application evolution and usability.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong Python development experience.
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming, micro-service, MVC frameworks with relational and non-relational databases
• Good Experience in building APIs (REST) and cloud native applications.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring around development design and best practices
• Good understanding of application quality including testing strategies, frameworks and practices (TDD)
• Good understanding of CI/CD and DevOps and Proficient with tools like GIT, Jenkin, Sonar
• Experience with Celery for async/background processing.
• Strong PostgreSQL skills including query optimization, schema design, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Strong mentoring, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• DevOps proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible.
• Cloud (AWS & Azure) and observability tooling exposure.

Why join us

“We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.

Business insight

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a dailybasis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!