Lead Application Development Engineer

About FM :

FM is a 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, they deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive.

FM India located in Bengaluru is a strategic location for driving FM's global operational efficiency that allows them to leverage the country’s talented workforce and advance their capabilities to serve their clients better.

Role Title : Lead Software Engineer

Position Summary :

Participates as a senior team member in the design, development, and maintenance of multi-tiered business applications. Individuals holding this position are typically expected to be mentors from technical and delivery perspectives as well as work independently as a member of a team. Incumbents have a thorough understanding of available technology landscape, tools, and existing designs. This individual also participates fully in all team practices and standards. This role interfaces with IT colleagues and other stakeholders to evaluate defined complex business requirements and processes, assesses available technologies, determines infrastructure, and recommends solution options.

Incumbents play a significant role in building application solutions which may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools. Demonstrates personal accountability and actively engages the team in demonstrating accountability. Supports quality efforts within the team.

Job Responsibilities :

Analysis & Design :

• Analyzes impact of requirements and works with Solution Architects on software solutions. Must consider usability, extensibility, efficiency, and performance during all phases of development. Applies design patterns to build secure, maintainable, testable, and evolvable software to ensure coherence across applications. Participates in designing software solutions and prepares technical documentation taking into consideration the Enterprise Architecture including authoritative sources of data, data & systems integration, and interrelationships across multiple subject areas (including transformation rules). Participates and leads design reviews. Contributes to the product backlogs. Assists in scheduling backlog items in the optimal execution order and ensures that the backlog is comprehensive. Advocates adoption of Enterprise initiatives. Helps develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments as appropriate to ensure successful implementation and support efforts.

Skill and Experience :

Must Have Skills :

Software Engineering & Architecture :

ensures API design aligns with contract-first principles and versioning best practices.

documents design and provides technical guidance within the team.

Cloud & DevOps :

applies best practices for service usage and cost optimization.

supports rollout strategies like blue / green and canary.

contributes to Helm Chart maintenance.

supports dashboard creation and alerting.

Security & Authorization :

supports remediation efforts.

Testing & Quality :

enforces CI quality gates and branch policies.

Enterprise SDLC & Governance :

Data & Migration :

supports roll-forward / rollback and environment promotion.

Leadership & Collaboration :

participates in architecture forums and engineering communities.

Education and Certifications :

Work location : Bengaluru