About the role

We're looking for a passionate Senior Lead Engineer to help build and evolve our cloud-native SaaS platform. If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems, designing scalable systems, mentoring developers, and leveraging AI to build better software, we'd love to hear from you.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll influence architecture, drive engineering excellence, and own product delivery from design through production.

Principle Tasks:

- Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable backend services and platform capabilities.
- Drive architecture and technical decisions with focus on scalability, reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
- Build cloud-native solutions on AWS using modern software engineering practices.
- Design and develop REST APIs and distributed microservices.
- Evaluate new technologies, conduct technical feasibility studies, and build PoCs.
- Champion clean code, automated testing, secure development, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
- Lead production issue resolution, RCA, and continuous platform improvements.
- Collaborate with Product, Architects, QA, DevOps, and Support teams to deliver high-quality software.
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and technical guidance.
- Leverage AI-powered engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery.

Primary Skills

- Java 17+
- Python
- AWS

Preferred Skills & Experience





- TypeScript and/or Node.js
- REST APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven & Distributed Systems
- AWS Serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions
- MySQL, MongoDB, ActiveMQ, Apache Solr or similar technologies
- Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Observability & Monitoring: CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- Secure Software Development & Cloud Security best practices
- Knowledge of TR-069, TR-369 and TR-181 device management standards is a plus

What Success Looks Like

- 12 - 14 years of experience building scalable enterprise or SaaS products using modern software engineering practices.
- Strong expertise in Java, cloud-native application development on AWS, system design, and backend engineering.
- Experience building microservices, event-driven architectures, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with AWS serverless technologies and up-to-date DevOps practices, including CI/CD, containerization, observability, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering excellence.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills with a passion for continuous learning and AI-assisted software development.
- AWS Certification (Associate or above) or equivalent cloud experience is preferred.

📌 Senior Lead Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Adtran
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