Tech Lead

IDFC FIRST Bank; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

IDFC FIRST Bank is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive innovation and growth of our front-end web and mobile platforms. You will act as a technical leader, mentor, and internal SME for the teams, guiding architecture, deployment strategies, and performance improvements across the lifecycle.

You will mentor junior developers, collaborate with engineering managers, and ensure timely, on-budget delivery while maintaining security and KPI standards.

Qualifications

• Strong technical leadership with 9 years of experience.
• Experience in frontend/mobile platform engineering.
• Proven ability to architect and implement scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand business priorities and requirements; architect/develop solutions and lead execution.
• Provide guidance and collaborate with Developers/Engineers to implement design and review work.
• Work with the head of Engineering to deploy technical layouts into production with developer teams.
• Lead as a subject matter expert and mentor on Golang.
• Operate in a highly AGILE environment with developers and engineering managers.
• Oversee feature set/architecture of applications and drive lifecycle activities.

Skills

Leadership

Golang

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Job Purpose:

'The role holder will play a critical role in managing and leading the engineering innovation and growth of our front-end customer facing web and mobile platforms. This role acts as a technical leader, mentor and internal subject matter expert for the teams.

• Understand the business priorities and requirements; architect/develop solutions to meet the business need and lead execution.
• Providing support, guidance and collaborating with Developers / Engineers to implement application design, and review developer & work to ensure correct implementation.
• Work closely with the head of Engineering to ensure lay out strategies on technical deployment and bring them into production with the developer teams.
• The roles is a subject matter expert and mentor on Golang
• Work closely in a highly AGILE environment with a team of developers and engineering managers
• Understand the full feature set/ implementation and architecture of the applications.
• Provide technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle, from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support.
• Act as an Interface with business teams to understand and create technology specifications for workable solutions within the project.
• Make performance related recommendations, and identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks (hardware, software, configuration); drive performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring.
• Lead and participate in the software development lifecycle, which includes research, new development, modification, security, reuse, re-engineering and maintenance of common component libraries.
• Knowledge of Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management and Performance Monitoring and KPI for end-to-end process execution
• Provide status updates and reporting metrics to the program leadership and contribute towards on-time and on-budget delivery

• Delegating tasks to appropriate team members and successfully project managing campaigns at all stages
• Taking responsibility for all development work and ownership of thorough quality control
• Mentor junior developers and help them grow their skillsets

Job Requirements

'The role holder will play a critical role in managing and leading the engineering innovation and growth of our front-end customer facing web and mobile platforms. This role acts as a technical leader, mentor and internal subject matter expert for the teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand the business priorities and requirements; architect/develop solutions to meet the business need and lead execution.
• Providing support, guidance and collaborating with Developers / Engineers to implement application design, and review developer & work to ensure correct implementation.
• Work closely with the head of Engineering to ensure lay out strategies on technical deployment and bring them into production with the developer teams.
• The roles is a subject matter expert and mentor on Golang
• Work closely in a highly AGILE environment with a team of developers and engineering managers
• Understand the full feature set/ implementation and architecture of the applications.
• Provide technical expertise for every phase of the project lifecycle, from concept development to solution design, implementation, optimization and support.
• Act as an Interface with business teams to understand and create technology specifications for workable solutions within the project.
• Make performance related recommendations, and identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks (hardware, software, configuration); drive performance tuning, re-design and re-factoring.
• Lead and participate in the software development lifecycle, which includes research, new development, modification, security, reuse, re-engineering and maintenance of common component libraries.
• Knowledge of Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management and Performance Monitoring and KPI for end-to-end process execution
• Provide status updates and reporting metrics to the program leadership and contribute towards on-time and on-budget delivery

Managerial & Leadership Responsibilities:

• Delegating tasks to appropriate team members and successfully project managing campaigns at all stages
• Taking responsibility for all development work and ownership of thorough quality control
• Mentor junior developers and help them grow their skillsets

Key Success Metrics:

• Deliver & effectively track all the deliverables
• Timely and proper tracking
• Design and implementation of appropriate metrics

Education Qualification:

• Graduation: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) / Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) / Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
• Post-Graduation: Master of Science (M.Sc) /Master of Technology (M.Tech) / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
• Years of Experience - 9 years.