Senior Lead Software Engineer

Hackajob; Hyderabad, Chennai District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 6,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob is seeking a senior software engineering leader to design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable full-stack solutions across UI, APIs, backend, and integrations. You'll lead requirements, partner with product, architects, and engineering teams to drive delivery readiness and technical decisions.

You will mentor engineers, foster engineering excellence, and promote responsible AI practices within the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.
• 12+ years applied experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Hands-on system design and architecture-led engineering.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and their governance.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable full-stack solutions (UI, APIs, backend services, integrations, and database components).
• Lead requirements clarification, solution design, and delivery readiness by partnering with product leads, architects, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Drive technical decisions that influence product design, application functionality, architecture, and operational processes.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others; establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Lead modernization and engineering excellence initiatives, including architecture reviews, cloud adoption, automation, reusable components, platform standards, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership, domain knowledge, guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, technical leads, contractors, and vendors.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing validation standards and promoting reuse of patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve value realized by automation.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, SRE, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery, operational stability, and achievement of business objectives.

Skills

12+ yrs exp

Full-stack SDLC

Java/Spring

Python

React/Angular

CI/CD

Cloud

AI-assisted dev

Secure coding

Mentoring

Database knowledge

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient full-stack solutions (UI, APIs, backend services, integrations, and database components).
• Lead requirements clarification, solution design, and delivery readiness by partnering with product leads, architects, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Drive technical decisions that influence product design, application functionality, architecture, and operational processes.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others; establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Lead modernization and engineering excellence initiatives, including architecture reviews, cloud adoption, automation, reusable components, platform standards, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership, domain knowledge, guidance, coaching, and mentorship to engineers, technical leads, contractors, and vendors.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, SRE, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery, operational stability, and achievement of business objectives.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 12+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, operational stability, and architecture-led engineering solutions within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, with extensive experience developing, debugging, reviewing, and maintaining high-quality code.
• Strong full-stack SDLC experience across Java, Spring Boot, Python, React/Angular, including microservices, distributed systems, API design, and scalable application architectures.
• Practical experience with database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, or similar), reporting/visualization tools, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Proven experience driving engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, testing strategies, DevOps practices, and delivery optimization.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies, application resiliency, secure engineering practices, and management of complex stakeholder, technology, and delivery dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership, stakeholder management, mentoring, and guidance to engineers, technical leads, contractors, and vendors.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies.
• Exposure to cloud technologies.
• Experience working in a product/platform environment.