Technical Lead

Professionals in this group are involved in full stack development and implement end-to-end components of proprietary software products. They work closely with product managers to understand functionalities and use cases of the product and create prototypes for the same. The job involves designing and developing the UI business logic tier data tier & integration tier along with testing and maintenance of the same. They are adept in the use of tools and technologies across layers: proficient in working with systems infrastructure creating querying & manipulating databases APIs and integration front-end code (HTML/CSS bootstrap React JS Angular JS) and web stack back-end technologies ((PHP Python Java). They have a sound understanding of CI/CD processes agile development possess deep understanding of programming fundamentals and can learn new framework languages and tools as required on projects.

Core Responsibilities for Candidates
Professionals in this group are involved in full stack development and implement end-to-end components of proprietary software products.
They work closely with product managers to understand functionalities and use cases of the product and create prototypes for the same.
The job involves designing and developing the UI business logic tier data tier & integration tier along with testing and maintenance of the same.
They are adept in the use of tools and technologies across layers: proficient in working with systems infrastructure creating querying & manipulating databases APIs and integration front-end code (HTML/CSS bootstrap React JS Angular JS) and web stack back-end technologies ((PHP Python Java).
They have a sound understanding of CI/CD processes agile development possess deep understanding of programming fundamentals and can learn new framework languages and
tools as required on projects.
Developing backend ford credit integration layer writing business logic
Integration with data tier
Integration with process API & System API

Good to Have Responsibilities for Candidates
12 years of software engineering experience
Experience with GraphQL An API Query Language
Experience piloting new technologies and designing implementation strategies
Experience designing and implementing enterprise best practices regarding existing or new technology/tooling
Experience of senior responsibilities including:
Dev Code Reviews
Change management
Building technical roadmaps/backlogs
Exposure or experience in the following Skills and Techniques:
Agile/PDO Ceremonies People & Skills Coaching
Coordination and logistical planning
Business focused cascades of technical strategies and/or roadmaps
Experience using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Lead the design development and delivery of scalable GraphQL APIs and platform services. Mentor engineers drive architectural decisions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust high-performance backend systems.
Strong expertise in GraphQL REST APIs and microservices architecture.
Proficiency in Java or similar backend languages.
Proficiency in Java Framework Spring Boot/Spring Reactive
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
Deep understanding of API security scalability and performance optimization.
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Defining Technical Direction strategy for products/platforms. Participate in making high-level design decisions.
Architectural Design: Leading the design and evolution of platform architecture.
Responsible for scalability reliability performance security maintainability and cost-effectiveness of cloud native applications.
Technology Evaluation & Technology Selection
Setting Technical Standards: Establishing and promoting best practices coding standards design patterns and quality guidelines within the team.
Experience with Spring Boot Spring Reactive Apollo Server or similar frameworks.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers.
Prior experience in automotive or large-scale enterprise environments
Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and containerization (Docker
Kubernetes).

Hands-on Contribution:
Leading by Example: Senior Tech Leads are still expected to contribute code especially for complex or foundational pieces of the platforms.
Prototyping & Proofs of Concept: Building prototypes to evaluate new technologies or approaches before presenting to leadership & committing it to the team.

Additional Project & Program Responsibilities
Project & Delivery Oversight:
Technical Planning & Estimation: Helping break down large features or projects into smaller manageable technical tasks. Contributing significantly to effort estimation and planning.
Identifying & Mitigating Risks: Spotting potential technical risks (e.g. performance bottlenecks integration issues dependencies) early on and devising plans to address
them.
Ensuring Quality: Working with the team to ensure delivered software meets quality standards including test coverage performance metrics and bug rates.
Driving Technical Debt Reduction: Identifying areas of technical debt and prioritizing efforts to pay it down strategically.
Collaboration & Communications: Bridging Technical and Non-Technical: Effectively communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders product managers designers and other non-technical colleagues.
Cross-Team Coordination: Collaborating with other teams technical leads and departments to ensure alignment on technical approaches dependencies and shared infrastructure.
Stakeholder Management: Managing expectations around technical feasibility timelines and constraints.

Process Improvement:
Optimizing Workflow: Identifying bottlenecks or inefficiencies in the teams development process (e.g. build times deployment frequency testing cycles) and proposing improvements.
Championing DevOps/SRE Practices: Promoting practices like CI/CD automated testing monitoring and incident response preparedness.

8-12 years of work experience
Graduate BE/BTech or Equivalent