Lead Software Engineer

Job Summary
The Lead Software Engineer sets the technical direction for the Credit Application platform and drives the delivery of strategic, cross-cutting initiatives that span multiple pods and services. As the senior-most engineer in the Credit team, this position is accountable for architectural decisions, platform-level quality, and the technical health of the entire credit application ecosystem — spanning applicant and manager frontends, core services, async workers, and third-party integrations.
The Lead Software Engineer partners closely with Engineering Management, Technical PMs, and other Leads to shape the product roadmap, anticipate scaling challenges, and lead the team through architectural evolution. This position drives the team's adoption of AI-assisted development practices, mentors senior engineers, leads production incident response, and represents the Credit team in cross-functional architecture discussions.

Job Responsibilities
- Set and evolve the technical strategy for the Credit Application platform — including architectural patterns,



technology choices, data model evolution, and vendor selection
- Lead delivery of cross-cutting initiatives that span multiple services and pods (e.g., migrations, platform-wide refactors, recent vendor integrations)
- Partner with Engineering Management and Technical PMs to translate business priorities into a technical roadmap with realistic delivery timelines
- Own architectural decisions at the platform level — data placement (MongoDB vs MySQL vs SQL Server), service boundaries, async vs sync patterns, third-party integration strategy
- Lead production incident response for high-severity issues — drive root-cause analysis, coordinate cross-team response, and own post-mortems
- Drive the team's AI-assisted development practices — establish spec templates, prompt patterns, validation workflows, and quality gates that scale across the pod
- Mentor and grow senior engineers through architec

📌 Lead Software Engineer( Java) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Billtrust
📍 Hyderabad