Lead Backend Engineer, VP

Job Title: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: VP

Role Description

• As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing software components in accordance with business requirements within the digital sales department. You will have exposure to all phases of the software development lifecycle, taking responsibility for delivering complex features end-to-end with a high degree of quality as an active engineer in our agile team setup. You will contribute your skills to overall design and architecture decisions, with a strong focus on both functional and non-functional requirements. Additionally, you will engage with our engineering practice in terms of software engineering best practices, testing methodologies, and other quality initiatives, working within a global distributed team to achieve collective success.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Design and develop software components aligned with business requirements within the digital sales department.
• Take ownership of delivering complex features end-to-end with high quality in an agile team environment.
• Contribute to overall design and architecture decisions, focusing on both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Engage in software engineering best practices, testing methodologies, and quality initiatives.
• Work collaboratively within a global distributed team to achieve project success.

Your skills and experience

Experience

• At least 5 years of industry experience in software design & development in a large-scale distributed system environment within the financial services industry.
• Fluent in developing RESTful APIs, either in Java (with Spring Boot and Spring Security) or Node.js (with Express and Typescript).
• Fluent in working with relational and NoSQL databases and OAuth2 flows.
• Solid experience building containerized services such as Kubernetes or cloud-native services. Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Google Cloud skills are a plus.
• Solid experience with build tools like Maven, Webpack, and testing frameworks for unit and integration testing.

Education / Certification

• A degree in computer science or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

Soft Skills Communication

• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Drive and Motivation

• Strong passion for leading a distributed agile team, stakeholder management, and designing customer-focused solutions.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.