Principal Full Stack Engine with AI

Virtusa; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa is seeking a Principal/Lead Engineer to drive software architecture and delivery for scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platforms. The role requires deep expertise in C#, .NET, Angular, and database design, with a focus on DDD, CQRS, and REST APIs.

You will mentor teams, shape technical strategy, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver robust solutions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in distributed systems, AI-assisted development, and modern DevOps practices, and will

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience as a Principal, Lead Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Expert proficiency in C#, .NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, and Angular.
• Strong experience with DDD, CQRS, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Strong knowledge of SQL optimization, data modeling, and technologies such as Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, Git, Agile development, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools, along with static analysis tools such as SonarQube and Mend.
• Experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.
• Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Skills

C#

.NET

Entity Framework

Angular

SQL

REST APIs

Event-driven

Distributed systems

DDD

CQRS

Multi-tenant SaaS

SQL optimization

Redis

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Automated testing

CI/CD

Git

Agile

DevOps

Observability

SonarQube

Mend

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CDK

GraphQL

WebSockets

SSE

Playwright

TestComplete

Datadog

CloudWatch

New Relic

Job description

Required Qualifications

10+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Experience as a Principal, Lead Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership role.

Expert proficiency in C#, .NET, Entity Framework, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, and Angular.

Strong experience with DDD, CQRS, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.

Experience designing secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS applications.

Strong knowledge of SQL optimization, data modeling, and technologies such as Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.

Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, Git, Agile development, and modern DevOps practices.

Experience with observability and monitoring tools, along with static analysis tools such as SonarQube and Mend.

Experience using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.

Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, SQS/SNS, S3, RDS)

Terraform or CDK - IAC

GraphQL, WebSockets, or Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Playwright or SmartBear TestComplete

Datadog, CloudWatch, or New Relic

Experience with LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), or AI-enabled application development