Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer Must-Have • Strong hands-on programming expertise in Java and Python, with the ability to design, build, test, and optimise production-grade backend services - Strong experience with React for building modern, responsive, and intuitive user interfaces for enterprise applications - Experience with Next.js or modern front-end architecture patterns alongside React - Deep experience building cloud-native applications using containers, Kubernetes, microservices, and managed cloud services in AWS and/or Azure - Strong expertise in designing and building APIs, including RESTful services, service contracts, versioning, security, and integration patterns - Proven experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, streaming, and resilient distributed system design - Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and release workflows - Strong understanding of software engineering quality metrics such as code quality, test automation, reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability Good to Have • Experience building agentic applications or AI-powered systems using LLMs, orchestration frameworks, retrieval, tool calling, and workflow automation - Experience with API gateway, service mesh, and enterprise integration patterns - Experience with Kafka, event streaming platforms, or large-scale messaging ecosystems - Exposure to CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and release engineering practices - Experience in regulated enterprise environments where security, governance, compliance, and auditability are critical - Ability to mentor engineers and influence architecture, engineering standards, and developer productivity at team level Remote ADVANCED ENGLISH Originally posted on Himalayas