Lead Engineer - Full Stack ( Payments )
- Tata Digital
- 8 - 13 years
- Bengaluru
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
Our Culture: We cultivate a culture of innovation, inclusion for all employees and respect their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We thrive on the diversity of our talent in all forms and see it as a strength in building high performance teams across brands. As we rewrite commerce in India, change is the only constant in our day to day lives.
Role Overview:
At TATA Digital, we are on a mission to redefine e-commerce and Fintech at an unprecedented scale, building a next-generation platform from the ground up to power Bharat. This is a unique opportunity to engineer a system that tackles foundational challenges in e-commerce, fintech, and hyper-local delivery. You will develop a platform capable of handling billions of transactions daily, leveraging AI-driven commerce, distributed systems, and high-performance engineering to drive innovation and efficiency.
As a Lead Engineer at TATA Digital, you will play a pivotal role as a hands-on technical leader. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, high-performance systems while driving best engineering practices. Collaborating closely with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering teams, you will contribute to building solutions that enhance TATA Digitals platform and elevate the customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize core components of TATA Digitals platform, ensuring scalability and performance.
- Coding, debugging, and reviewing implementations to ensure high-quality, maintainable solutions.
- Own system architecture while also contributing directly to critical components and services.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate advanced technologies into the product.
- Ensure engineering excellence through automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment best practices.
- Mentor junior engineers, helping them improve their coding skills and system design capabilities.
- Drive operational excellence, ensuring high availability and resiliency of the platform.
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in software development to drive continuous innovation.
Expectations from Lead Engineer:
- Hands-on Technical Leadership: Leads by example through active coding, design reviews, and system optimizations.
- Ownership Impact : Owns significant architectural components and contributes directly to multiple systems or services across TATA Digital.
- Problem Solving : Tackles ambiguous and complex technical problems with innovative solutions while implementing them in production.
- Mentorship Influence : Coaches and mentors junior engineers and peers, fostering a strong engineering culture through real-world coding guidance.
- Excellence Advocate : Actively participates in hiring, interviewing grooming processes, setting a high standard for technical excellence.
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with active hands-on coding responsibilities.
- Experience in designing and developing scalable payment systems.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and regulatory aspects of payments.
- Experience programming in at least one major software programming language (Java, Python, Go, C++, etc.).
- Proven experience in leading both design and implementation of new and existing systems.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team while continuing to code.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Master s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Search EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Tata DigitalLocation(s): Bengaluru+ View Contact
Keyskills: System architecture Hospitality C++ Architecture Coding Debugging System design Financial services Python
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