Software Engineer (III) - Core Senior Engineer

TekWissen; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen is seeking a Software Engineer (III) - Core Senior Engineer for its Chennai location. This hybrid role involves design, development, and maintenance of payroll-related applications, APIs, and microservices.

You will work across frontend (Angular) and backend (Java) stacks, collaborating with HR, Payroll, and IT Ops teams. Ideal candidates bring 10+ years IT experience, strong Java and Angular know-how, and experience with cloud (GCP).

Qualifications

• Senior Engineer with 10+ years in IT; 8+ years in development.
• Experience with full stack Java and mainframe DB.
• Experience with Angular front-end development and payroll domain systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to understand use-cases and requirements.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain software across full SDLC.
• Create high-level software architecture designs and define tech stack.

Skills

Mainframe DB

Full Stack Java Developer

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

GCP

Job description

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place - one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: Software Engineer (III) - Core Senior Engineer

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

Position Description:

• Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, developing, testing and maintaining software applications and products to meet customer needs.
• They are involved in the entire software development lifecycle including designing software architecture, writing code, testing for quality and deploying the software to meet customer requirements.
• Full-stack software engineering roles, who can develop all components of software including user interface and server side also fall within this job function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers to deeply understand their use-cases, pain points, and requirements, showcasing empathy and advocating for user-centric software solutions
• Solve complex problems by designing, developing, and delivering using various tools, languages, frameworks, methodologies (like agile) and technologies
• Assess the requirements of the software application or service and determine the most suitable technology stack, integration method, deployment strategy, etc.
• Create high-level software architecture designs that outline the overall structure, components, and interfaces of the application
• Collaborate with cross functional teams like product owners, designers, architects etc.
• Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices.
• Work on continuously improving performance and optimizing the application and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Familiar with programming practices, such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Support security practices to safeguard user data including encryption and anonymization.
• Create user-friendly and interactive interfaces
• Develop and maintain back-end applications like APIs and microservices using server-side languages
• Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies and capabilities to deliver their solutions, and are monitoring and participating in solutions for new stack layers, often involving industry collaboration

Skills Required:

• Mainframe DB, Full Stack Java Developer

Skills Preferred:

• GCP

Experience Required:

• Senior Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.; guides.
• 10+ years in IT; 8+ years in development

Education Required:

• Bachelors Degree

Additional Information :

• Develops software with a paired partner to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product.
• Develops automated unit tests with working software, to confirm software functionality conformance to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develops automated functional tests to confirm user story acceptance and to detect regression defects.
• Performs exploratory testing to confirm application execution and to identify software deficiencies not covered by automated testing.
• Reviews continuous integration build status and fixes build failures.
• Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past learnings.
• Reviews ongoing production software operations and troubleshoots production issues.
• Implements tooling that monitors application performance metrics and automatically notifies team when a failure occurs in production.
• Active participant in all team agile ceremonies:
• Actively manages the long-term delivery roadmap of the software product.
• Organizes team learning events.
• Provides input to product governance communications Responsibilities
• Designing, developing, and maintaining payroll-related applications
• Building and optimizing front-end interfaces using Angular
• Developing backend services and APIs in Java
• Deploying and managing applications on GCP
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (HR, Payroll, IT Ops) to support global payroll processes
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues
• Ensuring system scalability, security, and compliance with payroll regulations across regions

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.