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Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Grid DynamicsBelgaum, Republic Of India, IN
1 day ago
Job description

Summary

  • Engagement : Contractor, hands-on IC-lead (70–80% coding;

20–30% technical leadership).

  • Experience : 8–12 years total;

    • 3–5 years leading squads / streams while remaining deep in code.

  • Stack : Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, MySQL / PostgreSQL and MongoDB / Cassandra, Docker / Kubernetes, Git, OAuth2 / JWT, one cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure).
  • GenAI / AI Tools : Proficient with AI coding copilots and code-generation tooling;
  • experience designing and integrating GenAI services;

    • comfortable with “vibe coding” workflows.

  • Outcome : Ship secure, scalable services quickly;
  • mentor engineers informally;

    • drive design, reliability, CI / CD, and AI-enabled productivity.

    Required Qualifications

  • 8–12 years backend / platform engineering with strong, recent hands-on in Java / Spring Boot.
  • Designed, built, and scaled RESTful APIs in production;

    • API versioning, schema evolution, and backward compatibility.

  • Data depth across MySQL / PostgreSQL and MongoDB / Cassandra;

    • indexing, optimization,and caching patterns.

  • Implemented RBAC, OAuth2 / OIDC, JWT in real-world systems.
  • Proficient with Git workflows (trunk-based or GitFlow), code reviews, and branching strategies.
  • Testing : unit, integration, contract (e.G., Pact), and performance tooling;

    • API tooling with Swagger / OpenAPI and Postman.

  • Production-grade Docker and Kubernetes experience (deployments, services, ingress, HPA, rollout / rollback).
  • Cloud proficiency on at least one of AWS / GCP / Azure (compute, networking, storage, IAM, managed DBs).
  • AI Coding Tools and GenAI (new)
  • Daily-use proficiency with at least one AI coding tool in IDE / CLI;

    • able to set team guardrails, policies, and best practices.

  • Hands-on experience integrating at least one LLM platform (e.G., Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, or OpenAI / Anthropic APIs) into backend services.
  • Practical prompt engineering and evaluation;

    • experience with RAG using vector stores (e.G., OpenSearch, pgvector, Pinecone, Redis) and embeddings.

  • Familiarity with model lifecycle concerns : versioning, offline / online evaluation, A / B testing, telemetry, safety / abuse handling.
  • Comfort with “vibe coding” : collaborative AI-assisted workflows, rapid prototyping, live coding with AI agents, and converting exploratory prompts into production-grade code and tests.
  • Clear communicator;

    • able to ramp quickly and deliver independently with minimal supervision.

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