Lead Software Technologist - .Net Fullstack

Philips International; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Philips is seeking a Lead Software Technologist to steer architectural design and cloud-native services on a Kubernetes platform. You will mentor a cross-functional Scrum team, review code, and drive full-stack delivery from front-end to backend APIs.

Embrace TDD, automated tests, and observability to ensure robust production systems. The role requires deep experience in C#, Python, React, AWS, and Kubernetes, with a strong focus on engineering discipline and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Approximately 15+ years of overall experience in software engineering.
• Expert-level knowledge of backend languages and modern web frameworks; strong testing culture.

Responsibilities

• Architectural design and implementation of cloud-native services on Kubernetes-based platform.
• Provide technical mentorship for a cross-functional Scrum team and code reviews.
• Develop responsive front-ends and robust backend APIs for full-stack delivery.
• Apply TDD and automated tests to ensure production-ready code.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to enable CI/CD and observability tooling.
• Develop data models across SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Lead code quality initiatives and enforce coding standards.

Skills

C# expert

Python expert

REST/GraphQL/gRPC

React

TDD/Testing

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Helm

Crossplane

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job title: Lead Software Technologist

Your role

• Technical Stewardship: Contribute to the architectural design and implementation of cloud-native application services running on our Kubernetes-based platform.
• Team Mentorship: Act as a technical guide for a cross-functional Scrum team, conducting deep-dive code reviews and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Full-Stack Delivery: Drive the development of responsive web front-ends and robust backend APIs, ensuring seamless integration across the entire stack.
• Quality Engineering: Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) and other modern engineering practices to ensure application code is correct, stable, and maintainable before it reaches production. Build and maintain automated test suites (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) to support rapid, safe delivery.
• Infrastructure Awareness: Collaborate with platform engineers to adopt platform capabilities and ensure smooth deployments through CI/CD pipelines.
• DevOps Mindset: Embrace a “you build it, you run it” approach by leveraging observability tooling and cloud-native patterns to maintain reliable services in production.
• Data Strategy: Design and optimize data models across SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Sets quality goals and development practices with the team, driving continuous improvement and excellence in software development through rigorous standards and methodologies.
• Coordinates code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices to maintain code quality.
• Analyzes and optimizes application performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to enhance user experience and system efficiency, ensuring the software meets performance benchmarks.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, security engineers to define, design, code and ship new features, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs.

You’re the right fit if

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Around 15+ years overall experience
• Experience Expert-level knowledge with modern backend languages (C#, Python) and REST/GraphQL/gRPC patterns
• Experience Expert-level knowledge with modern web frameworks (React)
• You believe quality is a discipline, not a phase—and you practice TDD, automated testing, and clean coding as part of your daily workflow
• Experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, RDS, Elasticache, EC2) of atleast 5+years
• Experience with Kubernetes and the CNCF ecosystem.
• Our techstack contains: ArgoCD, Helm, Crossplane, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, fluent-bit, Kyverno of atleast 3+ years
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane).
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes is a plus (expert-level not required)
• Quick and eager learner who can rapidly acquire new skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to motivate and inspire
• Experience working in multinational and cross-functional organizations
• Experience working in a regulated industry such as medical device is a plus but not mandatory

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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#LI-EU #connectedcare At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people's health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

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