Lead Software Engineer

Camascope; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Camascope India is building a core PCS product in collaboration with UK Product Engineering teams. We seek a founding engineer who will take ownership from concept to production, setting technical direction and mentoring the team as it grows.

You will lead design and delivery of C#/.NET applications across backend and frontend, establish coding standards, and promote testing culture while collaborating with Product and QA teams to ship high-quality, scalable software.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET.
• Experience building modern web applications across backend and frontend technologies.
• Passion for clean, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable system design.
• Experience with CI/CD, source control and modern development practices.
• Confidence leading technical discussions and mentoring others.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Blazor or modern frontend framework experience.
• SQL database design and optimisation.
• Cloud-native development on Azure and AWS; migrating services between them.
• Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
• API design and integration.
• SaaS or multi-tenant platform experience.
• Authentication and authorisation technologies.
• Experience within healthcare, care or highly regulated environments.
• Prior experience as a founding/early engineer on a new team.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining applications using C# and .NET across backend and frontend technologies.
• Leading delivery of complex features and technical projects.
• Setting a strong technical example as a founding engineer and establishing coding standards and testing culture.
• Collaborating with Product and QA teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Writing robust automated tests and promoting engineering best practices.
• Reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and raising the technical bar as the team scales.
• Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions with the Engineering Manager.
• Driving improvements in scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Using modern development tooling and AI-assisted technologies to enhance productivity.
• Taking ownership of solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

C# and .NET

Web applications

Software architecture

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Blazor / frontend framework

SQL database design

Azure / AWS

Kubernetes

API design

SaaS / multi-tenant

Authentication / authorization

Healthcare / regulated environments

Founding/early engineer

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Camascope India is part of Person Centred Software (PCS) Group, whose software is used by thousands of care professionals every day to help care teams improve outcomes, stay compliant, and spend more time focusing on people. This new India-based team will work closely with our UK Product Engineering teams to design, build and operate a core PCS product.

The opportunity

This is a founding role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building high-quality software, and taking ownership from concept through to production — and who wants to help shape a brand-new team from day one. You'll be the senior-most individual contributor on the team, working closely with the Engineering Manager to set technical direction, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers as the team grows.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining applications using C# and .NET, across backend and frontend technologies
• Leading delivery of complex features and technical projects
• Setting a strong technical example as a founding engineer — establishing coding standards, review practices and testing culture for the new team
• Collaborating with Product and QA teams to deliver high-quality, well-tested solutions
• Writing robust automated tests and promoting engineering best practice across the team
• Reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and helping raise the technical bar as the team scales from 6 upward
• Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions, in partnership with the Engineering Manager
• Driving improvements in scalability, performance, security and maintainability
• Using modern development tooling and AI-assisted technologies (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to enhance productivity
• Taking ownership of solutions throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design to production support

What we're looking for

• Strong commercial experience with C# and .NET
• Experience building modern web applications across backend and frontend technologies
• A passion for clean, maintainable and well-tested code
• Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable system design
• Experience with CI/CD, source control and modern development practices
• Confidence leading technical discussions and mentoring others — you'll help set the tone for a brand-new team
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
• Blazor or modern frontend framework experience
• SQL database design and optimisation
• Azure and AWS/cloud-native development (this product is migrating core services from Azure to AWS)
• Kubernetes and containerised workloads
• API design and integration
• SaaS or multi-tenant platform experience
• Authentication and authorisation technologies
• Experience within healthcare, care or highly regulated environments
• Prior experience as a founding/early engineer on a new team