Head of Software Engineering @Chennai/65L/70%hands-on role in Dotnet

Live Connections

Chennai District

On-site

INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000

Full time

12 days ago
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Job summary

Live Connections is seeking a senior engineering leader to own architecture and end-to-end delivery of enterprise software products. You will guide cloud-native development, microservices, and front-end integration using React/TypeScript, with Azure as the cloud platform.

Strong coaching, performance focus, and AI-assisted DevOps practices are expected. You will drive multi-product strategy, mentor teams, and collaborate with product management and executives to align technical roadmap with

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in product development for enterprise-grade software.
  • 6+ years leading cloud-native product engineering teams.
  • Strong expertise with C#, .NET Core, Azure, DevOps.
  • Experience with React/TypeScript and microservice patterns.
  • Hands-on with AI tools for development automation.
  • Proven ability to design scalable distributed systems.
  • Experience with modern data stores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and drive design, development, quality, and performance of enterprise products.
  • Provide technical vision and leadership across engineering teams.
  • Ensure code quality and alignment with standards.
  • Develop cloud-native apps and integrate with external systems.
  • Lead end-to-end lifecycle using Agile methodologies.
  • Review architecture, design, and code; promote best practices.
  • Own performance, scalability, reliability, and sustainability.

Skills

Cloud architecture
Azure
DevOps
Microservices
React
TypeScript
SQL databases
NoSQL databases
AI tools
Leadership

Tools

Azure
AKS
Service Fabric
RabbitMQ
Kafka
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MS SQL Server
React
TypeScript

Job description

  • Responsible for architecture, design, development, quality and performance engineering of one or more enterprise software products.
  • Provide technical and strategic leadership for one or more enterprise product engineering teams.
  • Ensure quality of one or more product/application code bases and alignment with development standards.
  • Development of highly complex cloud native applications, interfaces and integration with other systems.
  • Lead/Own the complete development life cycle with agile principles for the respective products.
  • Review and recommend changes to the architecture/design/code.
  • Head the development of enterprise platform and application features/services with micro services, micro frontend patterns, using Azure cloud services, C# .NET Core, ReactJS, PostGres etc, implementing AI-DevSecOps principles.
  • Own and be accountable for the Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Sustainability of the respective enterprise platform/products.
  • Guide the POCs/Technical Solution Approach using the combination of open source, closed source, commercial technology/toolset.
  • Evaluate and recommend software development tools.
  • Strive for self-excellence along with managing, coaching/mentoring, enabling success of the development/engineering teams.

Requirements:

  • 12+ years of product development experience with enterprise grade products
  • 6+ years of hands-on and strategic experience in leading cloud native product engineering teams
  • Extensive experience with C#, .NET Core, Azure Cloud Services and DevOps
  • Working knowledge of the JS frameworks – React, TypeScript etc
  • Proven experience in automating development lifecycle using combination of AI tools - Claude + CoPilot + MCP
  • Strong experience in Micro-Services and/or Micro-Frontend architecture
  • Strong experience in container-based development, AKS, Service Fabric etc
  • Strong experience in messaging queue systems like RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Experience in architecting, building event driven and distributed software applications using cloud native services – preferably Azure
  • Strong experience in Relational and No-SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server
  • Preferable experience in integrating LLMs, vector databases, RAG into production apps
  • Experience in owning/driving end to end development of multiple products/solutions (incl testing, performance testing, deployment)
  • Strong knowledge of implementing Code Quality, Code Monitoring, Performance Engineering, Test Automation Tools
  • Experience in coaching/guiding/leading one or more teams of full stack engineers
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams - Product Management, Quality, Exec leadership
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