As a Lead Engineer at TATA Digital, you will play a key technical leadership role while actively contributing to code. You will design, develop, and optimize scalable, high-performance systems while driving best engineering practices. You will be expected to be hands-on (coding, debugging, and reviewing code) to ensure robust engineering execution.

You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists and other engineering teams to deliver solutions that enhance TATA Digitals platform and 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 skilled software development experience, with active hands-on coding responsibilities.
- 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.

📌 Lead Engineer - Full Stack (App & Commerce) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tata Digital
📍 Bengaluru