Job Description - Senior Software Engineer (Level 5)

Experience: 18+ years

Role Overview

Lead Software Engineer Level 5 is a senior technical leader responsible for owning major platform components, driving architectural decisions, mentoring multiple teams, and ensuring engineering excellence across the product. This role requires strong system-level thinking, high technical depth, leadership skills, and effective use of AI tools to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and drive innovation.

Key Responsibilities
- Own design and development of large-scale, business-critical systems or platform areas.
- Define architecture patterns, coding standards, and technical guidelines for the team.
- Lead technical grooming sessions, system reviews, and cross-team engineering discussions.
- Mentor senior engineers (L3/L4) and uplift technical capability across teams.
- Perform deep system debugging, performance engineering, scalability planning, and optimization.
- Drive CI/CD, automation, observability, and cloud adoption initiatives.
- Collaborate with Product, Architects, QA,



Security, and DevOps to deliver high-quality releases.
- Use AI tools for architecture exploration, code intelligence, automation, and rapid prototyping.
- Influence long-term technical roadmap and platform modernization strategy.
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Required Technical Skills
- Expert-level proficiency in Java, JSP Servlets, Springboot, microservices, distributed systems, API architecture.
- Strong experience in large-scale system design, integration patterns, and performance engineering.
- Excellent problem-solving, system-level debugging, and technical decision-making skills.
- Robust SQL expertise, including optimization, indexing strategy, and handling high-volume data.
- Practical experience with Azure/AWS for architecture, deployments, scaling, monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Proficient in using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Azure AI Studio) for: Architecture suggestions, Code acceleration and refactoring,

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