Lead Software Engineer

Blue Yonder; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Yonder is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru to architect, design, develop, and deliver scalable SaaS solutions. The role emphasizes React/TypeScript frontend and Java-based backend expertise, with hands-on leadership across engineering teams.

You will work with microservices, cloud-native architectures, and multi-tenant designs while mentoring engineers and steering technical decisions. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with strong full-stack capabilities.
• Proficient in React.js and TypeScript with hands-on coding skills.
• Strong REST API design experience and backend integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications.
• Develop reusable React/TypeScript UI components, hooks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Design and develop scalable Node.js REST APIs and backend services.
• Work with Java/Spring Boot services and contribute to backend architecture as required.
• Drive decisions for microservices, event-driven, cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Design solutions for scalability, performance, resiliency, availability and security.
• Promote engineering best practices around coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, deployment.
• Troubleshoot production and performance issues and identify sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, platform teams, and other engineers.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Lead POCs and evaluate new technologies/frameworks for complex problems.
• Contribute hands-on coding throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvements to simplify architecture and improve maintainability.

Skills

React.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure

CI/CD

GitOps

React Hooks

Redux

React Router

Styled-components

Emotion

Jest

Mocha

Tools

Redux

React Router

Styled-components

Emotion

Jest

Mocha

Spring Boot

Java

Job description

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with strong full stack development experience to architect, design, develop, and deliver scalable SaaS solutions. The role will have a strong focus on React, TypeScript, Node.js and Java technology.

The candidate will work closely with engineering teams and architects to build scalable, resilient, secure, event driven, and multi-tenant applications and will be expected to remain hands on while providing technical leadership and mentorship

Our current technical environment:

• Application Architecture: Cloud-native, scalable and resilient microservices architecture, Event driven architecture etc.
• Frameworks/Others: Kafka, Snowflake, Postgres, Mongo DB, Github CI/CD, Elastic Search

What you’ll do:

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications.
• Develop modern and reusable React/TypeScript UI components, hooks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Design and develop scalable Node.js REST APIs and backend services.
• Work with Java/Spring Boot services and contribute to backend architecture and development as required.
• Drive technical design decisions for microservices, event-driven, cloud-native, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Design solutions for scalability, performance, resiliency, availability, and security.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices around coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot complex production and performance issues and identify sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, platform teams, and other engineering teams.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Lead POCs and evaluate new technologies/frameworks to solve complex business problems.
• Contribute hands-on to coding and remain actively involved throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvements to simplify architecture, improve maintainability, and optimize system performance.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of software development experience, with strong hands-on full-stack development experience.
• Strong experience with React.js and TypeScript.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and Java particularly building scalable REST APIs and backend services.
• Experience with React Hooks, Redux, React Router and reusable component development.
• Strong HTML5 and CSS skills, including hands-on experience with styled-components or Emotion.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests using Jest, Mocha, or similar frameworks.
• Good experience with REST APIs, API management, OAuth, and secure application integration.
• Working knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, Java is a secondary technology for this role.
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming/messaging technologies.
• Good understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Azure/cloud-native technologies and cloud scalability.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and Agile development practices.
• Strong problem-solving, architectural thinking, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work hands-on while providing technical leadership across engineering teams.