Lead Product Software Engineer (10+ years only with C++ and C#)

Lead Product Software Engineer / Development Lead

Location : Chennai, India

Job Type : Full-Time

Experience Level : Lead (10+ years)

Job Summary

A Development Lead plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of software systems and features by combining technical expertise with leadership and management skills to guide and support their team throughout the development lifecycle. They must simultaneously be a developer by staying intimately involved in the technical work of their team, and a leader, helping to guide their team to realize their potential and further the organization's goals. A lead developer can be thought of as a bridge between an engineering team and management. They are a senior member of the team who can give technical guidance as well as mentor developers on the team. As a manager, a lead developer needs to demonstrate leadership. They encourage their developers to operate at their top potential and work together as a true team.

Lead developers may write code themselves, but much of their time will be used in conducting code reviews of components being created by other developers. They ensure and manage day-to-day progress as their team tackles their assigned tasks. They need to have a strong understanding of the overall business priorities for their team and need to be able to advocate for what their team needs to do their job while also making sure their team delivers on what company management expects..

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of complex software systems and features.
• Mentor junior developers and provide code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Design and develop complex software systems and features.
• Analyze and refactor legacy C++ / C# code to improve maintainability, performance, and readability
• Design and implement automated tests to increase code coverage (unit, integration, and UI tests)
• Identify and resolve technical debt, including outdated patterns, redundant logic, and architectural inconsistencies
• Collaborate closely with QA engineers, architects, and product managers to align technical improvements with business needs
• Document code changes, refactoring decisions, and testing strategies
• Provide code reviews to ensure best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and system architecture.
• Drive continuous improvement in code quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Assist in designing, developing, and maintaining software components and tools.
• Provide input on system design and architecture.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and best practices.

Qualifications

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Preferred Skills and Technologies

Nice to Have

Leadership Responsibilities

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Skills Required

Scrum, Agile, Microsoft Sql Server, Mstest, Git