Senior Technical Lead

Airtel Digital; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Digital leads the way in building products and services for growth, with a focus on development, documentation, and scalable solutions.

The senior lead role emphasizes mentoring engineering teams, setting best practices, and delivering on end-to-end technical deliveries across multiple tech stacks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering.
• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of project and take decisions; own end-to-end deliveries.
• Build culture of innovation and continuous improvement; adopt new technologies.
• Facilitate communication within engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide constructive feedback with Engineering Managers.
• Estimate and execute engineering projects to ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Team management

Project estimation

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering

Tools

Tomcat/Nodejs

Netty

Springboot

hibernate

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Apache Flink

Redis

Aerospike

Hazelcast

ReactJs

Angular

Android/IOS

Git

Jenkins

Nifi

Airflow

JMeter

Postman

Gatling

Nginx/Haproxy

Jira/Confluence

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

As a lead, your primary role will be to build products and services for Airtel's growth. You will be spending better part of the time in development and writing technical documents. You will solve business problems at scale, work on existing and new repositories, review code, write design documents and help in resolving customer issues. As senior lead, you will build and mentor engineering teams and deliver on below :

• Technical Expertise : Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of project and take decisions. You will setup and execute best practices in application architecture, development, code reviews, performance, deployment and execution by owning end-to-end business deliveries
• Innovation and continuous learning : You will build culture of innovation and continuous improvement in your team. You will encourage and adopt new technology and emerging industry trends and methods for improving efficiency of your team
• Communication and Collaboration : You will facilitate communication within the engineering teams and stakeholders including quality, operations, product and program to ensure alignment for business goals. You will address technical issues in teams and promote positive working environment
• Team Management : Conduct performance review and setup constructive feedback loop for team members along with Engineering Managers.
• Project Management : You will be part of overall planning by providing correct estimation and execution of engineering projects and ensure their timely delivery

At Airtel, we use many technologies including :

• Application layer technologies including Tomcat/Nodejs, Netty, Springboot, hibernate, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache flink
• Caching technologies like Redis, Aerospike or Hazelcast
• Frontend technologies including ReactJs, Angular, Android/IOS
• Tooling including Git, Command line, Jenkins, Nifi, Airflow, Jmeter, Postman, Gatling, Ngnix/Haproxy, Jira/Confluence, Grafana, K8s.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computers Engineering or comparable experience

Work Experience

7+ years of hands-on experience in software development.