Application Engineering Technical Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Provides advanced level IT technical lead services and direction for software, middleware, or hardware projects on a single platform. Provides technical expertise and completes complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Ensures the viability of IT deliverables. Recommends development options and conducts testing.
• Identifies potential solutions and may approve solutions proposed by team members. Resolves complex issues uncovered by testers and internal clients.
• Communicates with key stakeholders on project issues and implications. Evaluates the impacts of change requests on technologies.
• Maintains current knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards. Mentors IT staff with less experience and identifies training needs.
• Reviews and approves documentation and diagrams created by IT team members. Writes documentation, including technical standards and processes.
• Identifies opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• May participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout product life cycle to contribute technical expertise and to identify issues. Presents technical status and issues at milestone reviews.
• Thoroughly understands and complies with Information Technology and Information Security policies and procedures, and verifies that deliverables meet requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
• Leads server-side development with a focus on performance optimization, database design, and efficient data management.
• Collaborates with front-end and cross-functional teams to align backend systems with user experience objectives.
• Integrates and maintains data flow between APIs, backend services, and databases, ensuring stability and scalability.
• Ensures software documentation and architecture diagrams are comprehensive and support knowledge transfer.
• Implements best practices to secure backend systems and enhance scalability under growing data and user demands.

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 5 years of related work experience in software development and system integration.
• Bachelors degree (B.E./B.Tech) in relevant fields such as Computer Science or a Master’s degree/Diploma in Computer Science.
• Proficiency in software architecture, system integration, coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, C), middleware technologies, and cloud platforms.
• Must validate critical business process flows and identify opportunities to optimize resource usage and minimize wastage.
• Strong ability to analyze complex requirements, develop solutions, and resolve technical issues.