Software Engineer - Front Line Manager

Equifax; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Equifax is seeking a technology leader to oversee the technology team, interview and select people, motivate and inspire the team and drive retention and employee engagement.

The role emphasizes delivering high-quality software through SDLC practices, quality strategies, and cross-functional collaboration, while mentoring engineers and planning succession. You will align delivery with reliability and debt-reduction goals and coordinate with product and other departments.

Qualifications

• SDLC full lifecycle experience including coding, testing, debugging, and delivering software solutions.
• Proven ability to supervise daily activities and ensure operational performance.
• Experience delivering technology changes via project-based work and implementing IT solutions.
• Experience with performance reviews, training, and development.
• Experience designing/maintaining applications, systems architecture, and infrastructure.
• Able to identify and resolve day-to-day operational problems guided by policy.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years writing, debugging, and troubleshooting Java (11+) with Spring framework/SpringBoot.
• 5+ years designing and developing microservices with Java, SpringBoot, GCP, Kubernetes.
• 5+ years deploying software with Jenkins CI/CD, and using IaC concepts (Terraform/Helm).
• 5+ years experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• 5+ years working with CI/CD tools like Maven, Git, Jenkins.
• 5+ years experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• 5+ years of RESTful web services development.
• 5+ years of unit/automation testing (JUnit/Cucumber).

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technology team and lead recruitment, motivation, and retention efforts.
• Provide constant feedback and develop individual growth plans for engineers.
• Ensure delivery quality, manage metrics for reliability, code quality, and debt, and implement quality frameworks.
• Define delivery quality strategies and oversee processes across discovery, development, testing, approval, and implementation.
• Monitor efficiency via metrics like availability, cloud cost, throughput, and lead time; escalate resource needs.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration between product and client-focused areas, optimizing workflow and communication.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Project management

Operational problem solving

Mentoring & development

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Interviewing & hiring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

SpringBoot

TypeScript/JavaScript

HTML

CSS

Angular

GCP

Kubernetes (GKE)

Jenkins CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

Maven

Git

Relational/NoSQL databases

RESTful services

JUnit/Cucumber

Job description

What you will do

• Oversee the technology team, interview and select people, motivate and inspire the team and drive retention and employee engagement.
• Provide software engineers constant feedback and prepare individual development plans to have team members prepared for succession or to occupy new seniority positions.
• Ensure the quality of deliveries, prioritize initiatives oriented to metrics (eg reliability, code smells, technical debts, bugs), define quality strategy and quality techniques/frameworks (eg BDD, TDD, FDD , test automation), oversee the processes and controls of delivery flow at different discovery, development, testing, approval and implementation phases and ensure stability, performance and maintenance of organizational systems.
• Ensure the efficiency of the teams through the use of metrics (availability, cloud cost, throughput, lead time, blockages), ensuring the balance of indicators according to the defined goals and raising the need for additional resources as needed.
• Facilitate integration between product teams and other areas of the company focused on the client by defining responsibilities and agreements, and systematically optimizing workflow and communication.

What Experience You Need

• Software Development and Engineering: Extensive, hands-on experience in the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including coding, testing, debugging, and implementing software solutions.
• Team Supervision and Leadership : Proven experience in supervising the daily activities of a team (preferably production or technical support roles) and being accountable for their operational performance.
• Project and Delivery Management: Experience delivering Technology change through project-based work, including developing and implementing short and long-term IT solutions and adapting existing system designs.
• People Management Fundamentals: Experience with core people management responsibilities, such as conducting performance appraisals, pay reviews, and employee training/development.
• Technical Architecture/Systems Integration: Experience with the design, development, or maintenance of applications, systems architecture, network systems, or applications infrastructure.
• Operational Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve day-to-day operational problems and make decisions guided by policies and business plans.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream Java, SpringBoot, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, (Angular is desirable).
• 5+ years experience designing and developing microservices using Java, SpringBoot, GCP SDKs, GKE/Kubernetes
• 5+ years experience deploying and releasing software using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, understand infrastructure-as-code concepts, Helm Charts, and Terraform constructs
• 5+ years of Java (11 and above) software development experience including Spring framework and SpringBoot. (mandatory)
• 5+ years experience designing and developing cloud-native solutions using GCP, AWS, OR Azure (mandatory)
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like Maven, GIT and Jenkins. (Desirable)
• 5+ years experience working with Relational and/or NoSQL databases. (mandatory)
• 5+ years of Web service development, resource-oriented architecture, RESTful web services experience. (mandatory)
• 5+ years of Unit and automation testing (JUnit/Cucumber) (mandatory)

What could set you apart

• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using DataProc, Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• Cloud Certification especially in GCP
• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• You have excellent leadership and motivational skills
• You have an inquisitive and innovative mindset with a shown ability to recognize opportunities to create distinctive value
• You can successfully evaluate workload to drive efficiency