Job description

Role & responsibilities

The Development Lead is a senior hands-on engineering leader within Cherry Bekaert's Development & Engineering department. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality, production-grade code while providing technical direction, mentorship, code review rigor, and delivery coordination across the developer team. The Development Lead ensures frontend and backend work is secure, maintainable, tested, documented, and ready for the Dev Sec Ops pipeline before release. The role partners with Solution Architects, Development Engineers, and the Director of Development & Engineering to support Agile delivery, engineering standards, and continuous improvement.
Design, write, test, and maintain production-grade application code across frontend and backend technologies, including React, Next.js, Type Script, Python, and Flask. Lead technical delivery for sprint-level features by decomposing backlog items, identifying dependencies and risks, and coordinating work across frontend and backend engineers.



Own and enforce engineering quality standards, including code reviews, unit testing, documentation, secure coding practices, and Definition of Done adherence. Serve as the first escalation point for developer technical blockers, ambiguous requirements, and implementation tradeoffs; provide day-to-day technical direction to Senior Software Engineers. Partner with Solution Architects to execute against design direction and escalate architecture decisions that exceed sprint scope. Coordinate with Dev Ops Engineers to ensure code meets CI/CD, SAST, automated testing, coverage, and release readiness requirements. Mentor engineers through code review, pair programming, structured knowledge transfer, and cross-training to improve team capability and reduce single points of knowledge. Lead or support Agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily progress tracking, retrospectives, capacity planning input, and

📌 Development Lead (Madhya Pradesh)
🏢 Cherry Bekaert
📍 Madhya Pradesh